Cucchiara
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kukiˈɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cucchiara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Sicilian cucchiara (“spoon”).
- BEBelgium1 in 163K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 290K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 350K
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)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 163K (inferred from the name graph)
657 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Sicilian cucchiara (“spoon”).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cucchiara 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 | 657 | 1 in 506K | 657 | Cucchiara | 79 |
| AR Argentina | 157 | 1 in 290K | 157 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 72 | 1 in 163K | 72 | Cucchiara | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 24 | 1 in 350K | 24 | Cucchiara | 2 |
| ES Spain | 23 | 1 in 2.2M | 23 | Cucchiara | 11 |
657 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Cucchiara 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 scn, spoon (utensil, item of cutlery)
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)
- Joseph Cucchiarab. 1889Italian missionary
- Tony Cucchiarab. 1937ITItalian singer-songwriter and actor (1937–2018)
- Rita Cucchiarab. 1965ITItalian computer scientist (1965-)
- Gianluca Cucchiarab. 1973ITItalian composer
- Dalila Cucchiarab. 1979ITItalian basketball player (born 1979)
- Antonino CucchiaraUSastronomer
- Salvatore CucchiaraITresearcher
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 657 | #34,465 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 627 | #34,210 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 617 | #38,609 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 157 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 72 | #20,049 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 24 | #32,062 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 23 | #77,666 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 23 | #75,692 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Cucchiara mean, and where does it come from?
- From Sicilian cucchiara (“spoon”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Cucchiara?
- A machine transcription gives /kukiˈɑɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cucchiara have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 657 people named Cucchiara, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cucchiara.
- Where is Cucchiara most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cucchiara is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 163 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cucchiara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 657 people named Cucchiara in 2010, about 1 in 506 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cucchiara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cucchiaraThe 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, “Cucchiara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.