Gervasi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dʒɝˈvɑsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gervasi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 86K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 47K
  • BEBelgium1 in 172K

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)

1,311 people, 2010

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a surname originating as a patronymic

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gervasi 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.

Where Gervasi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,3111 in 254K1.3KGervasi61
AR Argentina5311 in 86K531Gervasi43
BR Brazil2821 in 751K282Gervasi38
CH Switzerland1791 in 47K179Gervasi6
BE Belgium681 in 172K68Gervasi5

1,311 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gervasi is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Gèrvasi

  • Georgian name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia

    Also written გერვასი

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Italy, Tanzania

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Герваси, Gervasí

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gervasi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, do nome latino Gervasius, Gervásio

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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)

1850190019502000Isotta Gervasi, b. 1889Galliano Gervasi, b. 1899Frank Gervasi, b. 1908Jorge Du Bois Gervasi, b. 1927Osvaldo Gervasi, b. 1957Sacha Gervasi, b. 1966Ana Cecilia Gervasi, b. 1966Paolo Gervasi, b. 1984Luigi Gervasi, b. 2000

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)

FormalDear Gervasi,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Gervasi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.3K#20,285
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.3K#20,833
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#19,784
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—531—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—282#27,845
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024179#6,867
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200868#20,944
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • 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 Gervasi mean, and where does it come from?
a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Gervasi?
A machine transcription gives /dʒɝˈvɑsi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Gervasi have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Gervasi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gervasi.
Where is Gervasi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gervasi is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 47 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gervasi?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,311 people named Gervasi in 2010, about 1 in 254 thousand residents.

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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, “Gervasi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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