Carnevale
surname · Latin script
Meaning: carnival; festival in the week before Lent
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑɹneɪˈvɑɫeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carnevale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 18K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 27K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 36K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
3,101 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
carnival; festival in the week before Lent
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carnevale counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,101 | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Carnevale | 87 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,493 | 1 in 18K | 2.5K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,356 | 1 in 156K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 235 | 1 in 36K | 235 | Carnevale | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 125 | 1 in 27K | 125 | — | — |
| IT Italy | #870 | — | — | listed | Carnevale | 119 |
3,101 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Carnevale is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Dal lat. medievale carnelevare, 'togliere la carne'; nome allusivo al tempo della nascita.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, dal lat. carnem levare, ‘togliere la carne’
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, do latim medieval carnevalis; formado de carne e levare
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Uno dei niolti iionii allusivi UI tciiil>o della iinscita. Cogn. Cariicvn.li, Carlevuri, .ris, Carlcvcri. I n documeiiti lombnrdi C piemont~si Cwiioi-rili~, C'nrncvnrius, Cavn~2cz.ariur.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, Variante di Carnevali
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antonio Carnevaleb. 1611(1611-1678)
- Ben Carnevaleb. 1915USAmerican basketball player and coach, college athletics administrator (1915-2008)
- Corrado Carnevaleb. 1930ITItalian judge
- Graciela Carnevaleb. 1942ARArgentinian artist (born 1942)
- Andrea Carnevaleb. 1961ITItalian association football player
- Roberto Carnevaleb. 1966ITItalian musician
- Massimo Carnevaleb. 1967ITItalian cartoonist
- Giuseppe Carnevaleb. 1978ITItalian football player
- Taylor Carnevaleb. 1991CACanadian ice hockey player
- Giorgio CarnevaleITItalian paleontologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,391 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,436 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,981 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 235 | #5,456 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 125 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Carnevale mean, and where does it come from?
- carnival; festival in the week before Lent Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Carnevale?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑɹneɪˈvɑɫeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Carnevale have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Carnevale, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carnevale.
- Where is Carnevale most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carnevale is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Carnevale?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,101 people named Carnevale in 2010, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
- How common is Carnevale compared with other names?
- In Italy, Carnevale is the 870th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carnevaleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carnevale” — the 870th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.