Spìnelli

surname · Latin script

Spìnelli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: forma plural de Spinello.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 4.6K
  • ARArgentina1 in 9.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈14,000 people, est.

Record sources
165 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Spinelli in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

forma plural de Spinello

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Spìnelli 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 Spìnelli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—≈14,000 est.≈1 in 4.6KlistedSpinelli71
US United States—5,3321 in 62K5.3KSpinelli165
AR Argentina#7364,9971 in 9.1K5KSpinelli90
BR Brazil—4,1071 in 52K4.1KSpinelli126
FR France—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 55K130—1
UY Uruguay#5001,1621 in 2.9K1.2KSpinelli46
CH Switzerland—3611 in 23K361Spinelli10

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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Spìnelli under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Spìnelli mean, and where does it come from?
forma plural de Spinello Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
In which country does Spìnelli have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Spìnelli in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spinelli.
Where is Spìnelli most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Spìnelli is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Spìnelli?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,332 people named Spìnelli in 2010, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
How common is Spìnelli compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Spìnelli is the 500th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Spìnelli” — the 500th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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