Festa
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Festa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In English, recorded as A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 121K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 127K
- ITItaly≈1 in 8K
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)
- Sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
party, celebration
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Festa is read(measured from records)
Festa is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 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.
- English56%
A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish14%
obsolete spelling of fiesta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese11%
party, celebration
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
party
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian8.7%
feast
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. festum; pessoa alegre, ou organizador de festas
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Festa 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 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 8K | listed | Festa | 44 |
| US United States | 2,626 | 1 in 127K | 2.6K | Festa | 290 |
| BR Brazil | 2,001 | 1 in 106K | 2K | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 832 | 1 in 55K | 832 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Festa | 62 |
| CH Switzerland | 107 | 1 in 79K | 107 | Festa | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Festa | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | 44 | 1 in 77K | 44 | — | — |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Costanzo Festab. 1490ITItalian composer
- Pasquale Festa Campanileb. 1927ITItalian screenwriter, film director and novelist (1927–1986)
- Tano Festab. 1938ITItalian artist, painter and photographer (1938-1988)
- Alberto Festab. 1939PTPortuguese footballer (1939–2024)
- Mike Festab. 1954USAmerican politician
- Al Festab. 1957ITItalian film director and composer
- Raffaele Festa Campanileb. 1961ITItalian film director
- Gianluca Festab. 1969ITItalian footballer
- Gianluca Festab. 1974ITItalian politician
- Marco Festab. 1992ITItalian association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #11,925 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.5K | #11,366 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,638 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #4,868 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 832 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 107 | #10,464 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 44 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- Where does the name Festa come from?
- party, celebration Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- What does the name Festa mean?
- In English, A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc.
- In which country does Festa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named Festa in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled festa.
- How common is the name Festa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,626 people named Festa in 2010, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Festa?
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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, “Festa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.