Lento

Borrowed from Italian Lento.

Lento (plural Lentos)

1. A surname from Italian.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lento is the 36525^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 612 individuals. Lento is most common among White (96.24%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lento”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 423.

From a Karelian vernacular form of Russian Мелентий (Melentij), Лентий (Lentij).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlento/, [ˈle̞n̪t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification^(key): Len‧to
• Hyphenation^(key): Len‧to

Lento

1. a Finnish surname

• The surname Lento belongs to 203 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From lento (“slow”), a nickname for a slow or lazy person.

Lento m or f by sense

1. a surname

From lentus (“slow”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɛn.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛn.to]

Lentō m sg (genitive Lentōnis); third declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Lucius Caesennius Lento, a Roman politician

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Lento”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.