Fellini

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Italian: a surname transferred from the given name

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/fəˈɫini/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Fellini is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • ITItaly
  • BRBrazil

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.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a surname transferred from the given name

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Fellini is read(measured from records)

Fellini is one spelling over 5 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.

  • English38%

    Federico, Italian film director

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Portuguese24%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Fellini in Portuguese.

  • Italian11%

    a surname transferred from the given name

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    de Fello com o sufixo plural -ini.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • French9.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Fellini in French.

  • Spanish9.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Fellini 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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:

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)

16001700180019002000Giulio Cesare Fellini, b. 1600Diego Fellini, b. 1858Federico Fellini, b. 1920Riccardo Fellini, b. 1922Maddalena Fellini, b. 1929Anjelica Bette Fellini, b. 1994

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Fellini
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—301#26,321
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000108#141,788
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193110—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19716—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19815—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19515—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19614—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19214—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)18913—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19912—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19411—

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 Fellini mean, and where does it come from?
a surname transferred from the given name Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Fellini?
A machine transcription gives /fəˈɫini/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Fellini have the most bearers?
Fellini is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Fellini”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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