Carroccio
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A large four-wheeled wagon bearing the city signs around which the militia of the medieval communes gathered and fought, particularly in northern Italy
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/karˈrɔt.t͡ʃo/(recorded in a dictionary) Italian · from Wiktionary
Carroccio is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ITItaly
- USUnited States
- CACanada
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A large four-wheeled wagon bearing the city signs around which the militia of the medieval communes gathered and fought, particularly in northern Italy.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Carroccio is read
(measured from records)Carroccio is one spelling over 3 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.
- English79%
A large four-wheeled wagon bearing the city signs around which the militia of the medieval communes gathered and fought, particularly in northern Italy.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian6.7%
a large war chariot drawn by oxen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de Carro com sufixo singular -occio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Spanish5.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Carroccio in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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:
- USUnited States
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- CACanada
- FRFrance
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Benedetto Carrocciob. 1964numismatist (1964-)
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 265 | #77,921 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 245 | #78,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 223 | #79,394 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 26 | #30,302 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 11 | #67,628 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Carroccio mean, and where does it come from?
- A large four-wheeled wagon bearing the city signs around which the militia of the medieval communes gathered and fought, particularly in northern Italy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Carroccio?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /karˈrɔt.t͡ʃo/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /karoksjo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Carroccio have the most bearers?
- Carroccio is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carroccioThe 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, “Carroccio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.