Campanella

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

• Spanish:/kampaneʎa/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Italian:/kam.paˈnɛl.la/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Campanella 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.

• English58%

  A smallish suspended bell used in medieval monastic cloisters.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Roy, US baseball executive

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Spanish15%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Campanella in Spanish.

• Italian9.4%

  small bell (in a school or factory)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  de Campana com sufixo feminino singular -ella; também pode ser topônimo.

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• French6.7%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Campanella 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Campanella 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 Latin, diminutive of campāna: A smallish suspended bell used in some medieval cloisters.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Croatian, talijanski filozof, utopist, kao heretik proveo je 27 godina u tamnici, zastupa ideal države utemeljene na mudrosti, moći i ljubavi ( Grad sunca )

  as a word·Hrvatski 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.

• Tommaso Campanellab. 1568ITItalian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet (1568-1639)
• Joseph Campanellab. 1924USAmerican actor (1924–2018)
• Juan José Campanellab. 1959ARArgentine film director and screenwriter

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).

25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Campanella mean, and where does it come from?

A smallish suspended bell used in medieval monastic cloisters. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Campanella?

In the etymology graph, Campana is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Campanella?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /kampaneʎa/; in Italian /kam.paˈnɛl.la/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Campanella?

In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Campanella, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled campanella. After it come Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Campanella most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Campanella is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 8.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Campanella?

In the United States, the national register counted 2,964 people named Campanella in 2010, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.