Savoia
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Savoia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Savoie (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France).
- USUnited States1 in 499K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 18K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 76K
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
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Savoie (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Savoia 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 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Savoia | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Savoia | 37 |
| BR Brazil | 806 | 1 in 263K | 806 | — | 4 |
| US United States | 666 | 1 in 499K | 682 | Savoia | 190 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Savoia | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 416 | 1 in 109K | 416 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 102 | 1 in 82K | 102 | Savoia | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | 40 | 1 in 85K | 40 | — | — |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Savoia 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, hab. da região da Savoia, do lat. Sabaudia
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)
- Carlo Emanuele I, Duke of Savoyb. 1562ITnot in their usual nameduke of Savoy
- Tommaso Francesco, 1st Prince of Carignanob. 1596ITnot in their usual nameFounder of the Savoy-Carignano branch of the House of Savoy (1596-1656)
- Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignanob. 1628FRnot in their usual namePrince of Savoy
- Victor Amadeus II of Savoyb. 1666ITnot in their usual nameDuke of Savoy and King of Sardinia (1666–1732)
- Marie Adélaïde of Savoyb. 1685ITnot in their usual nameDauphine of France
- Carlo Emanuele III of Sardiniab. 1701ITnot in their usual nameKing of Sardinia (1730-1773)
- Vittorio Amadeo III of Sardiniab. 1726ITnot in their usual nameKing of Sardinia (1773-1796)
- Carlo Emanuele IV of Sardiniab. 1751ITnot in their usual nameKing of Sardinia (1751-1819)
- Amadeus Ib. 1845ESnot in their usual nameItalian Royal and temporary Head of State of Spain (1845–1890)
- Umberto IIb. 1904ITnot in their usual namelieutenant of the Kingdom of Italy and last king of Italy
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 806 | #11,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 682 | #35,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 666 | #34,110 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 556 | #37,640 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 416 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 102 | #10,879 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 40 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Savoia mean, and where does it come from?
- Savoie (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Savoia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Savoia in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled savoia.
- How common is the name Savoia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 806 people named Savoia, about 1 in 263 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Savoia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/savoiaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Savoia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.