Neglia

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from Sicilian and southern Italian neglia, neghia ‘fog’, ‘mist’, possibly a nickname for someone with poor eyesight

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ˈnɛɡɫiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Neglia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 505K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 520K
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

640 people, 2010

Record sources
31 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 505K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

from Sicilian and southern Italian neglia, neghia ‘fog’, ‘mist’, possibly a nickname for someone with poor eyesight.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Neglia 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.

Where Neglia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6401 in 520K640Neglia31
AR Argentina901 in 505K90Neglia29
BR Brazil561 in 3.8M56Neglia21
ES Spain231 in 2.2M23Neglia11
BE Belgium81 in 1.5M8——

640 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Neglia is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Canada

    Also written Néglia

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Francesco Paolo Neglia, b. 1874Freddy Renato Moreno Neglia, b. 1959Giulio Neglia, b. 1991

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)
FormalDear Neglia,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Neglia mean, and where does it come from?
from Sicilian and southern Italian neglia, neghia ‘fog’, ‘mist’, possibly a nickname for someone with poor eyesight. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Neglia?
A machine transcription gives /ˈnɛɡɫiə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Neglia have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 640 people named Neglia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neglia.
Where is Neglia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Neglia is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 505 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Neglia?
In the United States, the national register counted 640 people named Neglia in 2010, about 1 in 520 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, “Neglia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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