Acerbo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: acerb (bitter to the taste)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/aseɾβo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Acerbo is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Argentina.
- ARArgentina
- ITItaly
- PHPhilippines
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)acerb (bitter to the taste)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Acerbo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do lat. acerbus; apelido ligado a pessoa áspera, dura e rígida
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Latin, to make harsh or bitter, embitter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, acerbic (bitter to the taste)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, unripe, premature
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, acerbic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Ludovico Acerbib. 1600ITnot in their usual nameItalian magistrate and politician
- Giacomo Acerbob. 1888ITItalian economist and politician (1888-1969)
- Tito Acerbob. 1890ITItalian military officer (1890–1918)
- Francesco Acerbob. 1925ITItalian poet and editor (1925-)
- Maurizio Acerbob. 1965ITItalian politician
- Gabriele Acerbob. 1966ITItalian author and television writer
- Rossella Acerbob. 1973ITItalian voice actress
- Louca Acerboactor
- Ludovico Acerbonoble and philanthropist italien
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 299 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 5 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1981 | 3 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2014 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1983 | 1 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Acerbo mean, and where does it come from?
- acerb (bitter to the taste) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Acerbo?
- A machine transcription gives /aseɾβo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Acerbo have the most bearers?
- Acerbo is most frequently recorded in Argentina.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/acerboThe 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, “Acerbo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.