zappalÃ
surname · Latin script
zappalà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Zappalà.
- ITItaly≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 64K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 200K
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)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zappalà in IT Italy, ES Spain, CH Switzerland and Zappala in US United States, BE Belgium.
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)
Borrowed from Italian Zappalà.
Sources 2
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
zappalà 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 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | listed | Zappalà | 74 |
| US United States | 778 | 1 in 428K | 804 | Zappala | 68 |
| AR Argentina | 712 | 1 in 64K | 712 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 139 | 1 in 1.5M | 139 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 57 | 1 in 877K | 57 | Zappalà | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 42 | 1 in 200K | 42 | Zappalà | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 35 | 1 in 335K | 35 | Zappala | 7 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 zappalà mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian Zappalà. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary.
- In which country does zappalà have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named zappalà in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zappalà.
- How common is the name zappalÃ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 778 people named zappalà in 2010, about 1 in 428 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zappal%C3%A3The 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, “zappalÔ. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.