Cassata
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A type of tutti-frutti or Neapolitan ice cream with nuts and candied fruits
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəsɑtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cassata is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A type of tutti-frutti or Neapolitan ice cream with nuts and candied fruits.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cassata is read(measured from records)
Cassata 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.
- English71%
A type of tutti-frutti or Neapolitan ice cream with nuts and candied fruits.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish10%
cassata siciliana
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cassata in Italian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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.
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)
- Rick Cassatab. 1947USAmerican football player
- Ryan Cassatab. 1993USMusician; LGBT activist
- Francesco Cassatab. 1997ITItalian footballer
- Paolo CassataITItalian astrophysicist
- Maria Concetta CassataITauthor of Accademie & biblioteche d'Italia
- Giovanni CassataITresearcher
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 692 | #35,096 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 635 | #33,830 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 612 | #36,525 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 107 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 34 | #24,910 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 17 | #52,752 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #173,769 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Cassata mean, and where does it come from?
- A type of tutti-frutti or Neapolitan ice cream with nuts and candied fruits. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cassata?
- A machine transcription gives /kəsɑtə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cassata have the most bearers?
- Cassata is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Cassata?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cassataThe 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, “Cassata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.