Pontecorvo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Pontecorvo, Lazio, Italia
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/poʊnteɪkɔɹvoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pontecorvo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 307K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 973K
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pontecorvo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 307K (inferred from the name graph)
342 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Понтекорво in RU Russia.
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)Pontecorvo, Lazio, Italia
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pontecorvo 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 | 342 | 1 in 973K | 342 | Pontecorvo | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 148 | 1 in 307K | 148 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Понтекорво | 26 |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
342 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Pontecorvo 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 Italian, oriundo de Pontecorvo; de Ponte e Corvo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)- Pasquale Pontecorvob. 1833ITItalian painter
- Guido Pontecorvob. 1907ITItalian geneticist (1907–1999)
- Bruno Pontecorvob. 1913ITItalian nuclear physicist (1913–1993)
- Gillo Pontecorvob. 1919ITItalian film director (1919–2006)
- Alain Pontecorvob. 1936FRFrench artist
- Clotilde Pontecorvob. 1936ITItalian psychologist (1936-2022)
- Marco Pontecorvob. 1966ITItalian cinematographer and film director
- Jean-Baptiste Pontecorvob. 1966FRArtist Designer
- Débora Pontecorvob. 1981ARArgentinian military personnel and aviator
- Lello Pontecorvob. 2000ITItalian film director
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 342 | #59,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 336 | #64,041 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 312 | #60,390 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 148 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #145,137 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Pontecorvo mean, and where does it come from?
- Pontecorvo, Lazio, Italia Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Pontecorvo?
- A machine transcription gives /poʊnteɪkɔɹvoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pontecorvo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 342 people named Pontecorvo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pontecorvo.
- Where is Pontecorvo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pontecorvo is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 307 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pontecorvo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 342 people named Pontecorvo in 2010, about 1 in 973 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pontecorvoThe 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, “Pontecorvo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.