Mazzara
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from the port of Mazzara del Vallo on the west coast of Sicily, which takes its name from the Mazzaro river
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɑtˈsɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mazzara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 450K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 29K
- UYUruguay1 in 43K
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
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from the port of Mazzara del Vallo on the west coast of Sicily, which takes its name from the Mazzaro river.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mazzara 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 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Mazzara | 32 |
| US United States | 739 | 1 in 450K | 751 | Mazzara | 194 |
| AR Argentina | 227 | 1 in 200K | 227 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 414K | 23 | — | — |
| EG Egypt | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 757K | — | Mazzara | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 112 | 1 in 105K | 112 | Mazzara | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 79 | 1 in 43K | 79 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Mazzara | 2 |
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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
Mazzara 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, topônimo siciliano de Mazara/Mazzara; ligado ao rio Mazara
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, DERIVATI: Mazzarése e
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)
- José Mazzarab. 1892UYUruguayan architect and writer
- Glen Mazzarab. 1967USAmerican writer and producer
- Maia Mazzarab. 2003FRFrench figure skater
- Alessandro Mazzarab. 2004ITItalian skateboarder
- Manuel Mazzararesearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-3860-4948
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 751 | #29,598 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 746 | #32,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 739 | #31,360 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 227 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 112 | #14,174 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Mazzara mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from the port of Mazzara del Vallo on the west coast of Sicily, which takes its name from the Mazzaro river. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mazzara?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑtˈsɑɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mazzara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Mazzara in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mazzara.
- How common is the name Mazzara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 739 people named Mazzara in 2010, about 1 in 450 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mazzaraThe 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, “Mazzara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.