Ponte

loc · Latin script

Meaning: bridge

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Ponte is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Italy.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly
  • MAMorocco
  • DZAlgeria

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
140 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

bridge

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ponte counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Ponte is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—listedPonte86
ES Spain—2.3KPonte109
MA Morocco——Ponte2
DZ Algeria——Ponte1
PE Peru——Ponte56
BR Brazil—21K—2
US United States—2.9K—140
AR Argentina—2K—72

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

Ponte is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Russia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Ponté

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ponté

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pônte

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Ponté

  • Ukrainian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Понте

49 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)

Ponte 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 Portuguese, bridge (construction or natural feature that spans a divide)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, do latim pons, pontis ‘ponte’; construtor ou morador junto a uma ponte

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • ponte, bridge

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Latin, vocative singular of pontus (“sea”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, font

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

17001800190020002100Simón Bolívar, b. 1783Concepción Arenal Ponte, b. 1820Antonio Villar Ponte, b. 1881Carlo Ponte, b. 1890Moshe Ponte, b. 1956Alber Ponte, b. 1963Gabry Ponte, b. 1973Laura Ponte, b. 1973Nikki Ponte, b. 1991Mateo Ponte, b. 2003

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 Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Ponte
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—21K#801
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.9K#10,894
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.5K#12,011
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.5K#11,660
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.3K#2,156
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.3K#2,156
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—2K—
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Ponte mean, and where does it come from?
bridge Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
How do you pronounce Ponte?
A machine transcription gives /ˈpɑnt/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Ponte have the most bearers?
Ponte is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled ponte.

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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, “Ponte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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