Lionello
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Lionel
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/li.oˈnɛl.lo/(recorded in a dictionary) Italian · from Wiktionary
Lionello is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- 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)a male given name, equivalent to English Lionel
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- BRBrazil
- FRFrance
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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lionello is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, de Lione c/ o suf. sing. -ello.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Cucciolo di leone
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)- Nicolò Lionellob. 1400ITItalian goldsmith and architect
- Giovanni Battista Lionellob. 1588ITcivil servant (1588-1622)
- Oreste Lionellob. 1927ITItalian actor and voice actor (1927-2009)
- Alberto Lionellob. 1930ITItalian actor (1930–1994)
- Fabio Luigi Lionellob. 1960ITItalian television director
- Luca Lionellob. 1964ITItalian actor
- Michael Lionello Cowanb. 1965British film producer
- Gea Lionellob. 1967ITItalian actress
- Davide Lionellob. 1973ITItalian actor
- Piero LionelloITresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-0779-5681
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 66 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 61 | #91,082 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 32 | #26,077 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 12 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 4 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #171,544 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Lionello mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Lionel Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lionello?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /li.oˈnɛl.lo/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ʎjoneʎo/; in Portuguese /ljunɛllu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Lionello have the most bearers?
- Lionello is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Lionello?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lionelloThe 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, “Lionello”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.