Gravina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of various places named Gravina, especially one in Puglia, near Bari
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡɹɑˈvinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gravina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 513K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 17K
- UYUruguay1 in 27K
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)
- Record sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Graviņa in LV Latvia.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from any of various places named Gravina, especially one in Puglia, near Bari.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gravina 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 | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Gravina | 48 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,660 | 1 in 128K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 648 | 1 in 513K | 658 | Gravina | 183 |
| FR France | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 135K | 116 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 242 | 1 in 188K | 242 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Gravina | 65 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 127 | 1 in 27K | 127 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Graviņa | 6 |
| MT Malta | #809 | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Gravina | 20 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Gravina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, mattock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, toponímico de cidades meridionais; de Grava com o sufixo -ina
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, DERIVATI: Gravinése. 7 Diffuso nel Sud, é formato dal toponimo Gravina, comune nell’Italia mer. (CS, G. in Puglia BA, G. di Catania CT, ecc.), e dal suo etnico Gravinése.
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)- John of Gravinab. 1294ITyounger son of Charles II of Naples and Maria of Hungary
- Pietro Gravinab. 1749ITItalian cardinal and archbishop
- Federico Gravinab. 1756ESSpanish admiral
- Cesare Gravinab. 1858USactor (1858-1954)
- Blandine Gravinab. 1863DE(1863-1941)
- Manfredi Gravinab. 1883ITItalian navy officer, diplomate, publicist (1883–1932)
- Carla Gravinab. 1941ITItalian actress and politician
- Gabriele Gravinab. 1953ITItalian sport manager
- Pasquale Gravinab. 1970ITvolleyball player
- Vanessa Gravinab. 1974ITItalian 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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 658 | #36,570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 648 | #34,835 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 596 | #35,666 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 242 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 143 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 127 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 116 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 113 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 100 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 83 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 46 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gravina mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of various places named Gravina, especially one in Puglia, near Bari. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gravina?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹɑˈvinə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gravina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Gravina in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gravina.
- How common is the name Gravina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,660 people named Gravina, about 1 in 128 thousand residents.
- How common is Gravina compared with other names?
- In Malta, Gravina is the 809th most common surname of 5,132 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gravinaThe 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, “Gravina” — the 809th most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.