Moretti

surname · Latin script

Meaning: de Moro com suf. plural -etti

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

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

Moretti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 9.6K
  • BRBrazil1 in 18K

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)

≈20,000 people, est.

Sources
187 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

de Moro com suf. plural -etti

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Moretti is read(measured from records)

Moretti is one spelling over 5 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.

  • French31%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Moretti in French.

  • English21%

    Italian beer

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Spanish21%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Moretti in Spanish.

  • Portuguese15%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Moretti in Portuguese.

  • Italian8.4%

    de Moro com suf. plural -etti

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)

Moretti 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 Moretti is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—≈20,000 est.≈1 in 3.2KlistedMoretti97
BR Brazil#64712,0801 in 18K12KMoretti135
FR France—≈7,800 est.≈1 in 8.7K342—2
AR Argentina#8114,7321 in 9.6K4.7KMoretti87
US United States—3,8581 in 86K3.9KMoretti187
CH Switzerland—6071 in 14K607Moretti23
UY Uruguay—3251 in 10K325Moretti17

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; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Moretti is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Italy

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Morettí

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Mòrèttì

  • German surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Italy, Austria

    Also written Morëtti

  • Croatian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, United States, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Moreti, Морети

44 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Marino Moretti, b. 1885Raoul Moretti, b. 1893Willie Moretti, b. 1894Luigi Moretti, b. 1907Michèle Moretti, b. 1940Mario Moretti, b. 1946Franco Moretti, b. 1950Nanni Moretti, b. 1953Tobias Moretti, b. 1959Fabrizio Moretti, b. 1980

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Moretti, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 33 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Moretti
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—12K#1,163
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—4.7K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.9K#8,529
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.9K#7,959
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.5K#9,092
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024607#2,100
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951510—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961484—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981418—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941382—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971370—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921369—

Reference works 5

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 Moretti mean, and where does it come from?
de Moro com suf. plural -etti Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Moretti?
A machine transcription gives /mɔʀɛti/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Moretti have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Moretti in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moretti.
How common is the name Moretti?
In Brazil, the national register counted 12,080 people named Moretti, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
How common is Moretti compared with other names?
In Brazil, Moretti is the 647th most common surname of 424,864 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, “Moretti” — the 647th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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