Campanile

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/ˌkæmpəˈnili/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary

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Campanile is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 864 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • CHSwitzerland1 in 73K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 117K
  • FIFinland1 in 253K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

864 people, 2010

Record sources
96 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Campanile

  • English:/ˌkæmpəˈnili/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
  • Italian:/kam.paˈni.le/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

A bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Campanile is read

(measured from records)

Campanile 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.

  • English61%

    A bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy.

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

  • Italian16%

    bell tower

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

    de Campana com sufixo singular -ile; também 'torre de igreja com sinos'.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

    Variante di Campana

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • Spanish7.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Campanile in Spanish.

  • French5.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Campanile 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 the surname Campanile is found

(measured from records)

Campanile 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 Campanile is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8641 in 385K868Campanile88
CH Switzerland1151 in 73K115Campanile13
AR Argentina1001 in 455K100Campanile25
BR Brazil981 in 2.2M98Campanile30
UY Uruguay291 in 117K29Campanile4
FI Finland221 in 253K22—1

864 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
188019001920194019601980Achille Campanile, b. 1899Pasquale Festa Campanile, b. 1927Raffaele Festa Campanile, b. 1961

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 Campanile,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Campanile mean, and where does it come from?
A bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Campanile?
In the etymology graph, Campana is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Campanile?
It depends on the language: in English /ˌkæmpəˈnili/ (Wiktionary); in Italian /kam.paˈni.le/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Campanile?
In the United States, the national register counted about 864 people named Campanile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled campanile. After it come Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Campanile most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Campanile is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 73 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Campanile?
In the United States, the national register counted 864 people named Campanile in 2010, about 1 in 385 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, “Campanile” — ranked 27235th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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