DePaola
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dɪˈpaʊˌɫɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
DePaola is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian De Paola.
- USUnited States1 in 251K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 92K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 97K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- 1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)
1,327 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Italian De Paola.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
DePaola 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 | 1,327 | 1 in 251K | 1.3K | DePaola | 219 |
| AR Argentina | 492 | 1 in 92K | 492 | DePaola | 23 |
| IT Italy | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | DePaola | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | DePaola | 15 |
| IN India | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 8.6M | — | DePaola | 4 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | DePaola | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 87 | 1 in 97K | 87 | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | DePaola | 1 |
1,327 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling depaola. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Tomie dePaolab. 1934USAmerican illustrator and writer (1934–2020)
- Andrew DePaolab. 1987USAmerican football player (born 1987)
- Rob DePaolaAmerican drummer
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,445 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 22 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 DePaola mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian De Paola. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce DePaola?
- A machine transcription gives /dɪˈpaʊˌɫɑ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does DePaola have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named DePaola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled DePaola.
- Where is DePaola most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, DePaola is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 92 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name DePaola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,327 people named DePaola in 2010, about 1 in 251 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about DePaola?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/depaolaThe 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, “DePaola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.