Bellissimo

surname · Latin script

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

/bɛɫiˈsimoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bellissimo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From bello + -issimo.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 565K
  • ARArgentina1 in 734K

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)

589 people, 2010

Sources
63 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 565K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From bello + -issimo.

Sources 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bellissimo 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 Bellissimo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5891 in 565K589Bellissimo63
BR Brazil1341 in 1.6M134Bellissimo45
AR Argentina621 in 734K62Bellissimo24
BE Belgium61 in 2M6—2
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5—1

589 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bellissimo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bellíssimo

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada

    Also written Bellíssimo

35 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bellissimo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, superlative degree of bello

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Croatian, reg. ekspr. vrlo lijepo!, najljepše!

    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)

197019801990Francesco Bellissimo, b. 1979Vince Bellissimo, b. 1982Daniel Bellissimo, b. 1984

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)

FormalDear Bellissimo,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Bellissimo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010589#37,735
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020587#40,270
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000573#36,761
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—134#50,632
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—62—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20086#92,070
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Bellissimo mean, and where does it come from?
From bello + -issimo. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Bellissimo?
A machine transcription gives /bɛɫiˈsimoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bellissimo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 589 people named Bellissimo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bellissimo.
Where is Bellissimo most common?
Bellissimo is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 565 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Bellissimo?
In the United States, the national register counted 589 people named Bellissimo in 2010, about 1 in 565 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, “Bellissimo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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