Vernazza
surname · Latin script
Meaning: DERIVATI: Vernazzani
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/beɾnaθθa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Vernazza is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- PEPeru
- ARArgentina
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)DERIVATI: Vernazzani. 7 Diffuso nella Liguria centro-orientale, é formato dal toponimo Vernazza (SP) nelle Cinque Terre, e dal suo etnico Vernazzano.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Vernazza 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 Vernazza; nome ligado a locais protegidos do frio
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)- Ettore Vernazzab. 1470ITItalian philanthropist
- Battistina Vernazzab. 1497ITItalian Christian mystic
- Giuseppe Vernazzab. 1745ITItalian historian and politician (1745-1822)
- Angelo Vernazzab. 1869ITItalian painter (1869-1937)
- Eduardo Vernazzab. 1910UYUruguayan artist (1910-1991)
- Jorge Vernazzab. 1925ARArgentine activist
- Pietro Vernazzab. 1956CHSwiss infectiologist (1956– )
- Paolo Vernazzab. 1979GBBritish footballer (born 1979)
- Ruben Vernazzab. 1986ITItalian musicologist (born 1986)
- Chris R VernazzaGBresearcher
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 179 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 157 | #111,988 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 144 | #26,281 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 142 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 140 | #127,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 139 | #116,123 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #66,412 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 28 | #65,950 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- How do you pronounce Vernazza?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /beɾnaθθa/; in Italian /verˈnat.t͡sa/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Vernazza mean?
- Recorded meaning: DERIVATI: Vernazzani.
- In which country does Vernazza have the most bearers?
- Vernazza is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vernazza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.