Antonioni
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Michelangelo, Italian film director (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/antonioni/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Antonioni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 558K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 670Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Antonioni
- Spanish:/antonioni/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/an.toˈnjo.ni/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Portuguese:/ɐ̃tunjuni/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Michelangelo, Italian film director
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Antonioni is read
(measured from records)Antonioni is one spelling over 5 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.
- English31%
Michelangelo, Italian film director
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Antonioni in Spanish.
- Italian20%
de Antonio com desinência pl. -oni
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French9.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Antonioni in French.
- Portuguese8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Antonioni in Portuguese.
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 the surname Antonioni is found
(measured from records)Antonioni 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 | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 62K | listed | Antonioni | 14 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Antonioni | 37 |
| BR Brazil | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | 154 | Antonioni | 29 |
| AR Argentina | 43 | 1 in 1.1M | 43 | Antonioni | 22 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 673K | — | Antonioni | 9 |
| BE Belgium | 21 | 1 in 558K | 21 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
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); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Antonioni 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 Croatian, talijanski filmski redatelj uglavnom kontemplativno-psiholoških filmova, teži ka osebujnim metaforama i atmosferama suvremenog apsurda ( Avantura , Noć , Pomračenje )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Michelangelo Antonionib. 1912ITItalian film director and screenwriter (1912–2007)
- Antonio Antonionib. 1947ITItalian classicist and librarian (born 1947)
- Robert A. Antonionib. 1958USpolitician in Massachusetts, US
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Antonioni mean, and where does it come from?
- Michelangelo, Italian film director Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Antonioni?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /antonioni/; in Italian /an.toˈnjo.ni/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ɐ̃tunjuni/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Antonioni?
- Mondonomo estimates about 951 people named Antonioni in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled antonioni. After it come United States, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Antonioni?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 43 people named Antonioni, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/antonioniThe 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, “Antonioni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.