Miano (surname)

Miano is a surname. It is a southern Italian surname, which originated both as a shortened form of given names such as Emiliano or Damiano, as well as a toponymic surname from various settlements including Miano in Naples, Miano [it] in Parma, Miano in Teramo, Miane in Veneto, and Mian in Belluno.^[1] It is also a Kikuyu surname, from the word mĩano "a small gourd used by a mũrogi to hold divining stones".^[2][3] In Italy, 899 families bore the surname Miano, with slightly less than half located in Sardinia.^[4] The 2010 United States census found 1,643 people with the surname Miano, making it the 17,239th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 1,531 (17,101st-most-common) in the 2000 census. In both censuses, roughly nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic white.^[5]

Notable people with the surname include:

• Laura Miano (born 1959), Italian sprinter
• Léonora Miano (born 1973), Cameroonian writer
• Mike Miano (born 1973), American football player
• Rebecca Miano (born 1966), Kenyan lawyer
• Rich Miano (born 1962), American football player
• Robert Miano (born 1942), American actor
• Sarah Emily Miano (born 1974), American writer