Names of San Marino SM

Ufficio Nazionale di Statistica — Curiosità (most common given names + surnames) records Maria as the commonest given name in San Marino and Gasperoni as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish San Marino from the rest of the world are Guidi, Chen and Wong.

Written in Italian.

Population
34K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
1.6K
BBuilt from 1 official register (2025), 1,576 name forms in our corpus, 13 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of San Marino are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, San Marino included.

How names work in San Marino

4 naming traditions are in use in San Marino, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in San Marino

Counts not recorded by the publisher · authority tier 3
Ufficio Nazionale di Statistica — Curiosità (most common given names + surnames), 2025 — 3 given names counted over a population the publisher did not record, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Maria268—
1Sara26826
3Giulia26623

Characteristic of San Marino

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when San Marino holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

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Sized by how much of the difference between San Marino's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

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The best-attested names in San Marino, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • Ufficio Nazionale di Statistica — Curiosità (most common given names + surnames)2025headline

    Ufficio Nazionale di Statistica - San Marino. Counts: not recorded. given and surname. 3 forms. 2025. Licence: Free (official statistics).

    What we know about this register

    Resident-population most-common names, snapshot December 2025, from the UNS "Curiosità" page. The page is narrative prose (no HTML table); the figures were extracted from the official text. Male given: Andrea 566 (note: present in 575 individuals but used as a female name in 9 cases), Marco 524. Female given: Maria 268 and Sara 268 (tied first), Giulia 266. Surnames: Gasperoni 517, Guidi 433, Casadei 386. 8 rows (5 given with sex, 3 surnames). Counts are resident-population totals, not annual newborns. Fetched directly via curl (browser UA), no proxy/Firecrawl needed. NAME-SEARCH SWEEP 2026-08-06: re-checked statistica.sm beyond the Curiosità narrative page above, searching for a queryable anagrafe/civil-registry per-name search tool ('ricerca anagrafica', 'ricerca nome cognome'). None found — no live per-name existence/frequency oracle exists on statistica.sm or comune anagrafe pages (those are in-person/administrative only). Curiosità remains the only name-related official output; not re-searched until infrastructure changes.

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in San Marino?
Maria, according to Ufficio Nazionale di Statistica — Curiosità (most common given names + surnames) (2025), with 268 bearers recorded among girls.
What is the most common surname in San Marino?
Gasperoni, according to Ufficio Nazionale di Statistica — Curiosità (most common given names + surnames) (2025), with 517 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in San Marino?
Because they count different people. Ufficio Nazionale di Statistica — Curiosità (most common given names + surnames) (2025) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Maria. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Robert. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in San Marino?
No — 4 are described on this page (Italian, Maltese, Romansh, Sardinian and Corsican), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of San Marino”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/SM (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Ufficio Nazionale di Statistica — Curiosità (most common given names + surnames).