Finocchiaro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de Finocchio com o sufixo singular -aro (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/fi.nokˈkja.ro/(recorded in a dictionary) Italian · from Wiktionary
Finocchiaro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 934 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 81K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 183K
- USUnited States1 in 356K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)
934 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Finocchiaro
- Italian:/fi.nokˈkja.ro/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/finoktʃjaro/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)de Finocchio com o sufixo singular -aro
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Finocchiaro is found
(measured from records)Finocchiaro 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 | 934 | 1 in 356K | 934 | Finocchiaro | 91 |
| AR Argentina | 248 | 1 in 183K | 248 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 104 | 1 in 81K | 104 | Finocchiaro | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 76 | 1 in 2.8M | 76 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 42 | 1 in 1.2M | 42 | Finocchiaro | 15 |
| BE Belgium | 32 | 1 in 366K | 32 | Finocchiaro | 10 |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | 4 |
934 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Finocchiaro 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 Italian, Variante di Finocchio
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)- Angela Finocchiarob. 1955ITItalian actress
- Anna Finocchiarob. 1955ITItalian politician
- Donatella Finocchiarob. 1970ITItalian actress
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Finocchiaro mean, and where does it come from?
- de Finocchio com o sufixo singular -aro Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Finocchiaro?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /fi.nokˈkja.ro/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /finoktʃjaro/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Finocchiaro?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 934 people named Finocchiaro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled finocchiaro. After it come Argentina, Switzerland, Brazil and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Finocchiaro most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Finocchiaro is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 81 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Finocchiaro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 934 people named Finocchiaro in 2010, about 1 in 356 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/finocchiaroThe 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, “Finocchiaro” — ranked 26189th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.