Paganini
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Paganini is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil. In English, recorded as One of a set of blocks for raising the height of a person or equipment.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
One of a set of blocks for raising the height of a person or equipment.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Paganini is read(measured from records)
Paganini is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese37%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Paganini in Portuguese.
- Spanish37%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Paganini in Spanish.
- English12%
One of a set of blocks for raising the height of a person or equipment.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Niccolo, Italian composer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Italian7.7%
grafia italiana; var. de Paganine
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
de Pagano com sufixo plural -ini
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Pagani
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paganini counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 4.6K | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 1.5K | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 371 | — |
| US United States | — | 366 | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 319 | — |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Paganini is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, talijanski skladatelj i violinski virtuoz izuzetnog temperamenta i neobičnih tehničkih dostignuća, jedan od najvećih svih vremena
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Paganino Paganinib. 1450ITItalian typographer and publisher (fl. 1483-1538)
- Alessandro Paganinib. 1450ITItalian printer (fl. 1511-1538)
- Niccolò Paganinib. 1782ITItalian violinist and composer (1782–1840)
- Achille Paganinib. 1825ITson of Niccolò Paganini and Antonia Bianchi, educated in Marseilles, lived in Genoa once married and then in Villa Gajona, near Parma
- Karl Haidingb. 1906ATnot in their usual nameethnologist
- Ettore Paganinib. 1922ITItalian painter (1922-1986)
- Luciano Paganinib. 1947ITItalian association football player
- Raffaele Paganinib. 1958ITItalian dancer and actor
- Nicolo Paganinib. 1966CHSwiss politician
- Alexia Paganinib. 2001USSwiss-American figure skater
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.6K | #2,406 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 371 | #3,546 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 366 | #59,630 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 342 | #59,171 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 319 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 313 | #60,230 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Paganini mean, and where does it come from?
- One of a set of blocks for raising the height of a person or equipment. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Paganini have the most bearers?
- Paganini is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
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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, “Paganini”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.