Taglia
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A particular system of fixed and movable pulleys; a tackle with a set of sheaves in a fixed block and another set in a movable block to which the weight is attached
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈtaʎ.ʎa/(recorded in a dictionary) Italian · from Wiktionary
Taglia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.6M
- ARArgentina1 in 3.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
227 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A particular system of fixed and movable pulleys; a tackle with a set of sheaves in a fixed block and another set in a movable block to which the weight is attached.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Taglia is read
(measured from records)Taglia is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English71%
A particular system of fixed and movable pulleys; a tackle with a set of sheaves in a fixed block and another set in a movable block to which the weight is attached.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian7.0%
size (of clothes, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do verbo tagliare; sobrenome ligado a profissões/atividades em que se corta material.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French6.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Taglia in French.
- Spanish5.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Taglia in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Taglia is found
(measured from records)Taglia 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 | 227 | 1 in 1.5M | 227 | Taglia | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 136 | 1 in 1.6M | 136 | Taglia | 16 |
| AR Argentina | 13 | 1 in 3.5M | 13 | Taglia | 21 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
227 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Taglia 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 Romansh, waist
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Taglia mean, and where does it come from?
- A particular system of fixed and movable pulleys; a tackle with a set of sheaves in a fixed block and another set in a movable block to which the weight is attached. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Taglia?
- In the etymology graph, Taille is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Taglia?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /ˈtaʎ.ʎa/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /taɡlja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Taglia?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 227 people named Taglia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taglia. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Poland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Taglia most common?
- Taglia is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Taglia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 227 people named Taglia in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tagliaThe 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, “Taglia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.