Chierici
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Chierico
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/tʃiɛɹisi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chierici is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 467K
- HNHonduras≈1 in 522K
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)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma plural de Chierico.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chierici 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 58K | listed | Chierici | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 217 | 1 in 976K | 217 | Chierici | 33 |
| US United States | 136 | 1 in 2.4M | 138 | Chierici | 18 |
| FR France | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 907K | 7 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 58 | 1 in 784K | 58 | Chierici | 21 |
| CL Chile | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 540K | — | Chierici | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Chierici | 1 |
| HN Honduras | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 522K | — | Chierici | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | — | 1 |
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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alfonso Chiericib. 1816ITItalian painter (1816-1873)
- Gaetano Chiericib. 1819ITItalian ethnologist, archaeologist and priest (1819-1886)
- Luigi Chiericib. 1823ITphysician and writer (1823-1898)
- Giovanni Chiericib. 1830Italian sculptor
- Gaetano Chiericib. 1838ITItalian painter (1838-1920)
- Lorenzo Chiericib. 1895ITItalian police officer
- Beppe Chiericib. 1937ITItalian actor
- Vittoria Chiericib. 1955ITItalian artist, avant-garde filmmaker and writer
- Roberto Chiericib. 1963ITItalian footballer
- Thierry Chiericib. 1964FRFrench politician
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 217 | #34,383 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 138 | #116,835 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 136 | #126,018 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 130 | #134,631 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 22 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Chierici mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Chierico. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Chierici?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃiɛɹisi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Chierici have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Chierici in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chierici.
- How common is the name Chierici?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 217 people named Chierici, about 1 in 976 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chierici?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chiericiThe 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, “Chierici”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.