Campanella
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A smallish suspended bell used in medieval monastic cloisters
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˌkæmpəˈnɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Campanella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 41K
- ARArgentina1 in 57K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
2,964 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A smallish suspended bell used in medieval monastic cloisters.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Campanella is read(measured from records)
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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Roy, US baseball executive
as a namePronouncing 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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de Campana com sufixo feminino singular -ella; também pode ser topônimo.
as a nameDicionário 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Campanella 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,964 | 1 in 112K | 3K | Campanella | 9 |
| AR Argentina | 796 | 1 in 57K | 796 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 411 | 1 in 8.2K | 411 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 333 | 1 in 636K | 333 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 286 | 1 in 41K | 312 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 136 | 1 in 62K | 136 | — | 1 |
2,964 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
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 wordkaikki.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 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)
- Tommaso Campanellab. 1568ITItalian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet (1568-1639)
- Frank Campanellab. 1919USAmerican actor (1919–2006)
- Roy Campanellab. 1921USAmerican baseball player (1921–1993)
- Joseph Campanellab. 1924USAmerican actor (1924–2018)
- Bruno Campanellab. 1943ITItalian conductor (1943–2026)
- Michele Campanellab. 1947ITItalian musician
- Juan José Campanellab. 1959ARArgentine film director and screenwriter
- Angela Campanellab. 1963ITactress
- Roberto Campanellab. 1968ITItalian actor and choreographer
- Alyssa Campanellab. 1990USAmerican model
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,301 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,968 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 796 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 411 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 333 | #24,254 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 312 | #5,437 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 286 | #5,810 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 136 | #8,620 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌkæmpəˈnɛɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Campanella have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/campanellaThe 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, “Campanella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.