Fanelli
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fəˈnɛɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fanelli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Fanelli.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 60K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 64K
- USUnited States1 in 74K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
4,493 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Italian Fanelli.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fanelli 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 | 4,493 | 1 in 74K | 4.5K | Fanelli | 11 |
| AR Argentina | 707 | 1 in 64K | 707 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 637 | 1 in 332K | 637 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 141 | 1 in 60K | 141 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 107 | 1 in 467K | 107 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 87 | 1 in 135K | 87 | — | — |
4,493 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Francesco Fanellib. 1590FRItalian sculptor (1590-1653)
- Giuseppe Fanellib. 1827ITItalian anarchist (1827–1877)
- Ernest Fanellib. 1860FRFrench composer (1860–1917)
- Michele Fanellib. 1907ITItalian marathon runner (1907-1989)
- Mario Fanellib. 1924HRCroatian television director (1924–1991)
- Gary Fanellib. 1950USAmerican Samoan long distance runner
- Antonio Fanellib. 1966ITItalian track cyclist and bicycle racer
- Sara Fanellib. 1969ITItalian British illustrator (born 1969)
- Alison Fanellib. 1979USAmerican actress
- Emanuela Fanellib. 1986ITItalian actress (born 1986)
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.5K | #7,408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,806 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,886 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 707 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 637 | #13,690 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 141 | #8,351 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 107 | #26,339 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 107 | #26,168 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 87 | #17,392 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Fanelli mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian Fanelli. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Fanelli?
- A machine transcription gives /fəˈnɛɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fanelli have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Fanelli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fanelli.
- Where is Fanelli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fanelli is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 60 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fanelli?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,493 people named Fanelli in 2010, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fanelliThe 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, “Fanelli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.