Marchese
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Marchese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In English, recorded as An Italian marquis.
- ITItaly≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 50K
- UYUruguay1 in 11K
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
- 359 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the title of rank marchese ‘marquis’ (in Italy the rank immediately below that of duke), probably applied as a nickname for someone who behaved like a marquis, or an occupational name for a servant in the household of a marquis. However, 13th- and 14th-century documents show that the term was also used as a personal name at that time.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Marchese is read(measured from records)
Marchese is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English58%
An Italian marquis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marchese in Spanish.
- Italian8.5%
from the title of rank marchese ‘marquis’ (in Italy the rank immediately below that of duke), probably applied as a nickname for someone who behaved like a marquis, or an occupational name for a servant in the household of a marquis. However, 13th- and 14th-century documents show that the term was also used as a personal name at that time.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
marquis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de Marche c/ o suf. -ese; depois, título nobiliárquico
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
grafia italiana; var. de Marquesi
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)
Marchese 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 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | listed | Marchese | 72 |
| US United States | 6,670 | 1 in 50K | 6.7K | Marchese | 359 |
| CN China | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Marchese | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 2,315 | 1 in 20K | 2.3K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 1,369 | 1 in 155K | 1.4K | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 300 | 1 in 11K | 300 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 294 | 1 in 29K | 294 | Marchese | 19 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Marchese | 1 |
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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Giovanni Marcheseb. 1889ITItalian bicycle racer (1889-1954)
- Filippo Marcheseb. 1938ITItalian criminal
- Giuseppe Marcheseb. 1963ITItalian mafia member
- Paolo Marcheseb. 1964ITItalian actor
- Egidio Marcheseb. 1968ITItalian wheelchair male curler
- Amber Marcheseb. 1977USAmerican television personality and entrepreneur
- Vincenzo Marcheseb. 1983ITGerman footballer
- Giovanni Marcheseb. 1984ITItalian footballer
- Dossett Marcheseb. 1985USAmerican actor
- Concetta Marcheseb. 1998ITItalian boxer
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.7K | #5,229 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.5K | #4,974 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.1K | #5,521 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,917 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 300 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 294 | #4,436 |
| 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 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Marchese come from?
- from the title of rank marchese ‘marquis’ (in Italy the rank immediately below that of duke), probably applied as a nickname for someone who behaved like a marquis, or an occupational name for a serva… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Marchese mean?
- In English, An Italian marquis.
- In which country does Marchese have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Marchese in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marchese.
- How common is the name Marchese?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,670 people named Marchese in 2010, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
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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, “Marchese”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.