Rótolo
surname · Latin script
Rótolo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Italian rotolo (“roll; rottol”). As a roll, from Late Latin rotulus (“little wheel”), from Latin rota (“wheel, rolling thing”) + -ulus (“-ule”, forming diminutives).
- ARArgentina1 in 175K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 105K
- USUnited States1 in 224K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)
1,488 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rotolo in AR Argentina, US United States, BR Brazil and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Italianrotolo“roll; rottol”(measured from records)
- Late Latinrotulus“little wheel”(measured from records)
- Latinrota“wheel“wheel, rolling thing”(measured from records)
- Arabicرُطْلruṭl(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekλίτραlítra(measured from records)
From Italian rotolo (“roll; rottol”). As a roll, from Late Latin rotulus (“little wheel”), from Latin rota (“wheel, rolling thing”) + -ulus (“-ule”, forming diminutives). As a unit of weight, from Arabic رُطْل (ruṭl), variant of classical رِطْل (riṭl), ultimately from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra).
Sources 3
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rótolo 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 | 1,488 | 1 in 224K | 1.5K | Rotolo | 63 |
| AR Argentina | 260 | 1 in 175K | 260 | Rotolo | 34 |
| BR Brazil | 158 | 1 in 1.3M | 158 | Rotolo | 38 |
| BE Belgium | 112 | 1 in 105K | 112 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 29 | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | Rotolo | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 21 | 1 in 400K | 21 | — | 1 |
1,488 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rótolo mean, and where does it come from?
- From Italian rotolo (“roll; rottol”). As a roll, from Late Latin rotulus (“little wheel”), from Latin rota (“wheel, rolling thing”) + -ulus (“-ule”, forming diminutives). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Rótolo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Rótolo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rotolo.
- Where is Rótolo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rótolo is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 105 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rótolo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,488 people named Rótolo in 2010, about 1 in 224 thousand residents.
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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, “Rótolo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.