Moretta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feminine singular of moretto
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/moɾetta/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Moretta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 54K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador≈1 in 100Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 300K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)feminine singular of moretto
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Moretta is found
(measured from records)Moretta 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 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Moretta | 12 |
| AR Argentina | 845 | 1 in 54K | 845 | Moretta | 42 |
| US United States | 304 | 1 in 1.1M | 336 | Moretta | 35 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 103K | 1 | Moretta | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 695K | — | Moretta | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 28 | 1 in 300K | 28 | — | 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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)- Lorenzo Morettab. 1948ITresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-4658-1747)
- Alessandro Morettab. 1953ITItalian immunologist
- Damián Morettab. 2000ARArgentinian athletics competitor (born 2000)
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moretta mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of moretto Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Moretta?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /moɾetta/; in Italian /mɔretta/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Moretta?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Moretta in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moretta. After it come Argentina, United States, Ecuador and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Moretta?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 845 people named Moretta, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Moretta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morettaThe 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, “Moretta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.