Donzelli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Donzello
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/donθeʎi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Donzelli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 167K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 323K
- FRFrance≈1 in 430K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma plural de Donzello
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Donzelli is found
(measured from records)Donzelli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Donzelli | 31 |
| BR Brazil | 452 | 1 in 468K | 452 | Donzelli | 49 |
| AR Argentina | 273 | 1 in 167K | 273 | Donzelli | 38 |
| US United States | 169 | 1 in 2M | 169 | Donzelli | 22 |
| FR France | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 430K | 15 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 26 | 1 in 323K | 26 | — | 1 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Domenico Donzellib. 1790ITItalian tenor (1790–1873)
- Valérie Donzellib. 1973FRFrench actress, film director and screenwriter
- Marta Donzellib. 1975ITItalian film producer
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Donzelli mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Donzello Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Donzelli?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /donθeʎi/; in Italian /dond͡zɛlli/; in Portuguese /dõzɛlli/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Donzelli?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Donzelli in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled donzelli. After it come Brazil, Argentina, United States and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Donzelli?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 452 people named Donzelli, about 1 in 468 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Donzelli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/donzelliThe 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, “Donzelli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.