Belladonna
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A plant, Atropa belladonna, having purple bell-shaped flowers and poisonous black glossy berries
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Belladonna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 196K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 831K
- USUnited States≈1 in 6.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 196K (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A plant, Atropa belladonna, having purple bell-shaped flowers and poisonous black glossy berries.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Belladonna is read(measured from records)
Belladonna is one spelling over 4 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.
- English41%
A plant, Atropa belladonna, having purple bell-shaped flowers and poisonous black glossy berries.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
poisonous nightshade; 'beautiful lady' in Italian
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Spanish; "the beautiful one"
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- Italian22%
deadly nightshade, belladonna (Atropa belladonna)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
composto de bella e donna; bela senhora, matrona
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Spanish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Belladonna in Spanish.
- French10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Belladonna in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)
Belladonna 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 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 196K | listed | Belladonna | 11 |
| US United States | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 6.5M | 270 | Belladonna | 51 |
| AU Australia | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 831K | 1 | Belladonna | 28 |
| IN India | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 51M | — | Belladonna | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 23 | 1 in 9.2M | 23 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 6.9M | — | Belladonna | 9 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Belladonna 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 Dutch, synonym of wolfskers (“deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)”)
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)
- Fernando Belladonnab. 1916ITItalian footballer (1916-2003)
- Giorgio Belladonnab. 1923ITItalian bridge player and writer (1923-1995)
- Joey Belladonnab. 1960USAmerican heavy metal singer (born 1960)
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #177,962 |
| 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
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Belladonna mean, and where does it come from?
- A plant, Atropa belladonna, having purple bell-shaped flowers and poisonous black glossy berries. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Belladonna?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 23 people named Belladonna, about 1 in 9.2 million residents.
- In which country does Belladonna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 319 people named Belladonna in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled belladonna.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/belladonnaThe 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, “Belladonna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.