Apicella

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname transferred from the nickname

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Apicella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 181K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 122K
  • USUnited States1 in 333K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

998 people, 2010

Sources
54 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 122K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a surname transferred from the nickname

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Apicella 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.

Where Apicella is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9981 in 333K998Apicella54
AR Argentina2511 in 181K251Apicella34
CH Switzerland691 in 122K69—5
BR Brazil541 in 3.9M54Apicella26
ES Spain501 in 1M50Apicella13
BE Belgium61 in 2M6—1

998 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Apicella is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Apichella, Апичелла

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Lucia Apicella, b. 1887Enzo Apicella, b. 1922Victor Apicella, b. 1927Tina Apicella, b. 1946Vincenzo Apicella, b. 1947John Apicella, b. 1948Marco Apicella, b. 1965Manuel Apicella, b. 1970Sabrina Apicella, b. 1987

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 21 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Apicella
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010998#24,914
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020986#26,112
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000933#24,993
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—251—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202469#14,666
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—54#99,355
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—50#44,953
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—50#44,350
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20086#90,819
US United Stateswru 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)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • 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 Apicella mean, and where does it come from?
a surname transferred from the nickname Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Apicella have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 998 people named Apicella, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled apicella.
Where is Apicella most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Apicella is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 122 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Apicella?
In the United States, the national register counted 998 people named Apicella in 2010, about 1 in 333 thousand residents.

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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, “Apicella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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