Lista
surname · Latin script
Meaning: list, roll (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries
/lista/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Lista is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 4K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 12K
- ITItaly≈1 in 30Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Lista
- Spanish:/lista/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)list, roll
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lista is found
(measured from records)Lista 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.
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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)Lista 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, redução coloquial de Evangelista.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Polish, inventory, list (register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a list; a register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, thin, narrow strip of material; batten, fillet, strip, bead
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, An ancient city of Central Italy, situated near Reate
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)- Stanislao Listab. 1824ITItalian sculptor (1824-1908)
- Giovanni Listab. 1943ITItalian art historian and critic
- Michael Listab. 1983CACanadian poet
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lista mean, and where does it come from?
- list, roll Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Lista?
- In the etymology graph, List is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lista?
- In Spanish /lista/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lista?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Lista in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lista. After it come Italy, Algeria, Argentina and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lista most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lista is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.0 thousand people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lista?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,242 people named Lista, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Lista compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Lista is the 940th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lista?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/listaThe 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, “Lista” — the 940th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.