Fornelli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Fornello
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/fɔɹˈnɛɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fornelli is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- ITItaly
- FRFrance
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma plural de Fornello
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- FRFrance
- ARArgentina
- ITItaly
- MXMexico
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)- Nicola Fornellib. 1843ITItalian educationist (1843–1915)
- Felipe Lacouture Fornellib. 1928MXArchitect, museologist, visual arts specialist
- André Fornellib. 1954FRFrench politician
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 259 | #79,345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 256 | #75,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 224 | #79,115 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 92 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #92,187 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 19 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- What does the name Fornelli mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Fornello Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Fornelli?
- A machine transcription gives /fɔɹˈnɛɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fornelli have the most bearers?
- Fornelli is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Fornelli?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fornelliThe 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
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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, “Fornelli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.