Cancelli

surname · Latin script

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

Cancelli is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. In English, recorded as plural of cancellus.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • ITItaly
  • ARArgentina

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

inflection of cancellare:

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Cancelli is read(measured from records)

Cancelli 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.

  • English36%

    plural of cancellus

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

  • Italian23%

    inflection of cancellare:

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

  • Portuguese18%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Cancelli in Portuguese.

  • Spanish12%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Cancelli in Spanish.

  • French5.3%

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cancelli 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 Latin, inflection of cancellus:

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

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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Cancelli
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—190#38,292
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000120#130,443
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010104#156,044
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202445#20,234
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—40—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19619—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20088#80,615
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19518—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19816—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19914—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19713—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19213—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

Where does the name Cancelli come from?
inflection of cancellare: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Cancelli mean?
In English, plural of cancellus
In which country does Cancelli have the most bearers?
Cancelli is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cancelli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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