Michelini
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic or plural form of a pet form of Michele
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/miʧɛlini/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Michelini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 45K
- BRBrazil≈1 in 335K
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
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic or plural form of a pet form of Michele.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Michelini 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 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Michelini | 95 |
| AR Argentina | 1,003 | 1 in 45K | 1K | Michelini | 53 |
| BR Brazil | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 335K | 490 | Michelini | 69 |
| US United States | 491 | 1 in 677K | 491 | Michelini | 70 |
| UY Uruguay | 240 | 1 in 14K | 240 | Michelini | 31 |
| FR France | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 305K | 25 | Michelini | 3 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Michelini | 3 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)
Michelini 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 Michele, com sufixo plural -ini
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Micheli
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)
- Arturo Michelinib. 1909ITItalian politician (1909–1969)
- Danilo Michelinib. 1917ITItalian footballer and manager (1917-1983)
- Zelmar Michelinib. 1924UYUruguayan activist and politician assassinated in Argentina in 1976
- Gian Carlo Michelinib. 1935ITItalian-Taiwanese priest
- Alberto Michelinib. 1941ITItalian journalist and politician
- Felipe Michelinib. 1961UYUruguayan politician (1961–2020)
- Giulia Michelinib. 1985ITItalian actress
- Flavien Michelinib. 1986FRFrance footballer
- Luciano Michelinib. 2000ITItalian composer
- Stéphanie MicheliniFRFrench actor
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #8,878 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 491 | #43,885 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 473 | #48,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 456 | #44,430 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 240 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 25 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Michelini mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic or plural form of a pet form of Michele. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Michelini?
- A machine transcription gives /miʧɛlini/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Michelini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Michelini in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michelini.
- Where is Michelini most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Michelini is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Michelini?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,003 people named Michelini, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/micheliniThe 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, “Michelini”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.