Rotolo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A kind of roll
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹoʊˈtoʊɫoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rotolo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 224K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 26K
- CNChina≈1 in 81K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
roll (of material)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rotolo is read(measured from records)
Rotolo is one spelling over 4 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.
- English61%
A kind of roll.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rotolo in Spanish.
- Italian7.4%
roll (of material)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do árabe ratl, medida de peso; também pode referir mercador desonesto ou pessoa magra
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rotolo in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Rotolo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Rotolo | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | listed | Rotolo | 36 |
| US United States | 1,488 | 1 in 224K | 1.5K | Rotolo | 229 |
| FR France | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 245K | 42 | Rotolo | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 251K | 18 | Rotolo | 21 |
| AR Argentina | 260 | 1 in 175K | 260 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 112 | 1 in 105K | 112 | Rotolo | 9 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Salvatore Rotolob. 1881ITItalian priest (1881–1969)
- Nicola Rotolob. 1925ITItalian politician
- Carla Rotolob. 1941USAmerican artist, folk musician and folk music researcher
- Suze Rotolob. 1943USAmerican artist (1943-2011)
- Stefania Rotolob. 1951ITItalian singer (1951–1981)
- Silvio Giuseppe Rotolob. 1961ITItalian petrologist (born 1961)
- Terence J. Rotolob. 1966USAmerican actor
- Luca Rotolob. 1986ITItalian ice hockey player (born 1986)
- Daniela Rotolob. 1997ITItalian taekwondoin
- Swamy Rotolob. 2004ITItalian actress
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,540 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,599 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 260 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 112 | #14,144 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 21 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 18 | #97,089 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- Where does the name Rotolo come from?
- roll (of material) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rotolo?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹoʊˈtoʊɫoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Rotolo mean?
- In English, A kind of roll.
- In which country does Rotolo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Rotolo in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rotolo.
- How common is the name Rotolo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,488 people named Rotolo in 2010, about 1 in 224 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rotoloThe 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, “Rotolo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.