Serafini
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do nome hebraico Serafim; forma f
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/seɾafini/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Serafini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 18K
- BRBrazil1 in 71K
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
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
do nome hebraico Serafim; forma f. de Seraphinus
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Serafini 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 | — | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | listed | Serafini | 51 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 352K | — | Serafini | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,975 | 1 in 71K | 3K | Serafini | 90 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,463 | 1 in 18K | 2.5K | Serafini | 68 |
| US United States | — | 1,491 | 1 in 223K | 1.6K | Serafini | 89 |
| PY Paraguay | #417 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Serafini | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 202 | 1 in 42K | 202 | Serafini | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 76 | 1 in 45K | 76 | Serafini | 10 |
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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luigi Serafinib. 1808ITItalian cardinal (1808-1894)
- Domenico Serafinib. 1852ITCatholic cardinal (1852–1918)
- Dorino Serafinib. 1909ITracecar driver
- Luigi Serafinib. 1949ITItalian artist (*1949)
- Marco Serafinib. 1956LULuxembourgian film director
- Giorgio Serafinib. 1962ITItalian film director
- Cristina Serafinib. 1978ITItalian actress
- Amadeus Serafinib. 1990USAmerican actor
- Joe Serafinib. 1998USAmerican actor
- Sebastiano SerafiniITItalian model, actor and musician
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #3,438 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,209 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 202 | #6,226 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 76 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- How do you pronounce Serafini?
- A machine transcription gives /seɾafini/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Serafini mean?
- Recorded meaning: do nome hebraico Serafim; forma f.
- In which country does Serafini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named Serafini in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled serafini.
- How common is the name Serafini?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,975 people named Serafini, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
- How common is Serafini compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Serafini is the 417th most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/serafiniThe 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, “Serafini” — the 417th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.