Giacometti
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: from a pet form of the personal name Giacomo (see James)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒiakɔmeti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giacometti is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- ITItaly
- FRFrance
- ARArgentina
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the personal name Giacomo (see James).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
How Giacometti is read(measured from records)
Giacometti 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.
- French22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Giacometti in French.
- English21%
Alberto, Swiss sculptor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Giacometti in Spanish.
- Portuguese19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Giacometti in Portuguese.
- Italian13%
from a pet form of the personal name Giacomo (see James).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
de Giacomo 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Giacometti 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 Croatian, švicarski kipar i slikar; kubizam i nadrealizam kao uporišta; nakon 2. svjetskog rata istanjene postapokaliptične skulpture ljudi na tragu egzistencijalizma i enformela
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Paolo Giacomettib. 1816ITItalian dramatist (1816–1882)
- Giovanni Giacomettib. 1868CHSwiss painter (1868-1933)
- Augusto Giacomettib. 1877CHSwiss artist (1877-1947)
- Zaccaria Giacomettib. 1893CHSwiss jurist (1893-1970)
- Alberto Giacomettib. 1901CHSwiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)
- Diego Giacomettib. 1902CHSwiss artist (1902-1985)
- Bruno Giacomettib. 1907CHSwiss architect (1907-2012)
- Michel Giacomettib. 1929FRFrench director and ethnologist (1929-1990)
- Antonio Giacomettib. 1957ITItalian composer
- Éric Giacomettib. 1963FRFrench writer
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,504 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 458 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 323 | #62,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 301 | #70,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 256 | #71,143 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 220 | #5,776 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 164 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 142 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 132 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 130 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 113 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 110 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Giacometti mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Giacomo (see James). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Giacometti?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒiakɔmeti/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Giacometti have the most bearers?
- Giacometti is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Giacometti?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giacomettiThe 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, “Giacometti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.