Moccia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a feminine pet form of a personal name ending with -moccio (see Moccio)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmoʊtʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moccia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 304K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 15K
- UYUruguay1 in 41K
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
- 217 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a feminine pet form of a personal name ending with -moccio (see Moccio).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moccia 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 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Moccia | 43 |
| US United States | 1,096 | 1 in 304K | 1.1K | Moccia | 217 |
| AR Argentina | 369 | 1 in 123K | 369 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Moccia | 41 |
| CA Canada | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Moccia | 46 |
| CH Switzerland | 102 | 1 in 82K | 102 | — | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | 82 | 1 in 41K | 82 | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Moccia | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Mocciab. 1345IT14th-century Italian poet and secretary
- Oscar Mocciab. 1898ITItalian jurist (1898-1976)
- Roberto Mocciab. 1931ITItalian chemist (born 1931)
- Giuseppe Mocciab. 1933ITItalian screenwriter and film director (1933–2006)
- Francesco Domenico Mocciab. 1949ITItalian architect and urban planner
- Franco Mocciab. 1962ARArgentinian politician
- Federico Mocciab. 1963ITauthor
- Andrea Mocciab. 1985ITItalian geologist and scientific communicator
- Rocío Sánchez Mocciab. 1988AROlympic field hockey player
- Richard A. MocciaUSAmerican politician
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,251 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,465 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 369 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 102 | #10,879 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 82 | — |
| 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 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 Moccia mean, and where does it come from?
- from a feminine pet form of a personal name ending with -moccio (see Moccio). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Moccia?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmoʊtʃə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Moccia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Moccia in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moccia.
- How common is the name Moccia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,096 people named Moccia in 2010, about 1 in 304 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mocciaThe 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, “Moccia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.