Balocchi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of balocco
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/balok͡ʃi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Balocchi is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Chile.
- CLChile
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
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)plural of balocco
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- CLChile
- ARArgentina
- FRFrance
- ITItaly
- USUnited States
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)Balocchi 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, forma plural de Balocco.
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)- Luigi Balocchib. 1766ITItalian composer and librettist (1766–1832)
- Vincenzo Balocchib. 1818ITItalian gynaecologist and surgeon
- Vincenzo Balocchib. 1892FRItalian photographer (1892-1973)
- Enzo Balocchib. 1923ITItalian politician
- Maurizio Balocchib. 1942ITItalian politician (1942-2010)
- Luigi Balocchib. 1962ITItalian writer
- Federico Balocchib. 1984ITItalian politician
- Marta BunsterCLnot in their usual nameChilean scientist working in biochemistry, biophysics and cristallography
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 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 40 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 16 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 11 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 3 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Balocchi mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of balocco Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Balocchi?
- A machine transcription gives /balok͡ʃi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Balocchi have the most bearers?
- Balocchi is most frequently recorded in Chile.
What do you want to know about Balocchi?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balocchiThe 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
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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.
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, “Balocchi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.