Caccia

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Italian: hunting; shooting

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

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

Caccia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 65K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 21K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 22K

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)

≈2,800 people, est.

Sources
46 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

hunting; shooting

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Caccia is read(measured from records)

Caccia 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.

  • English37%

    cape, Italy

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Spanish30%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Caccia in Spanish.

  • Italian13%

    hunting; shooting

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

    sobrenome com sentidos ligados a caça ou ao verbo cacciare

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • French7.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Caccia in French.

  • Portuguese6.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Caccia 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)

Caccia 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 Caccia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈2,800 est.≈1 in 22KlistedCaccia22
AR Argentina6981 in 65K698Caccia41
US United States3601 in 924K405Caccia28
FR France≈230 est.≈1 in 291K30—1
BR Brazil2231 in 949K223Caccia46
CH Switzerland2071 in 41K207Caccia5
UY Uruguay1641 in 21K164Caccia15

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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

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

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Also written Caccìa, Caccía

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)

Caccia 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, glazb. vrsta dvoglasne talijanske polifone kompozicije, nastala u 15. st., usp. chasse

    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)

1400160018002000Guglielmo Caccia, b. 1568Camillo Caccia Dominioni, b. 1877Paolo Caccia Dominioni, b. 1896Roger Caccia, b. 1904Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia, b. 1905Luigi Caccia Dominioni, b. 1913Charles Caccia, b. 1930Gabriele Giordano Caccia, b. 1958Nicola Caccia, b. 1970Diego Torres, b. 1971

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 Caccia,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Caccia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—698—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020405#54,873
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000390#50,366
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010360#56,710
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—223#33,620
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024207#6,085
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—164—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195147—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194145—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199130—

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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 Caccia mean, and where does it come from?
hunting; shooting Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Caccia?
In the etymology graph, Chase and Cacciatore are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Caccia?
A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑtʃə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Caccia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Caccia in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caccia.
Where is Caccia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caccia is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Caccia?
In Argentina, the national register counted 698 people named Caccia, about 1 in 65 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, “Caccia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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