Palazzo

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Palazzo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In English, recorded as A large, palatial urban building in Italy.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 19K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 41K
  • USUnited States1 in 104K

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)

3,203 people, 2010

Sources
138 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A large, palatial urban building in Italy.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Palazzo is read(measured from records)

Palazzo is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • English52%

    A large, palatial urban building in Italy.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish25%

    palazzo (palatial urban building in Italy)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Italian8.9%

    a royal palace

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    do lat. palatium; hab. ou trabalhador de palácio, ou de localidades chamadas Palazzo

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Portuguese5.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Palazzo in Portuguese.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Palazzo 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 Palazzo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,2031 in 104K3.2KPalazzo79
AR Argentina2,3811 in 19K2.4K——
BR Brazil7301 in 290K730—1
CH Switzerland2031 in 41K203—3
ES Spain1031 in 486K103Palazzo3
BE Belgium441 in 266K44Palazzo8
UY Uruguay261 in 130K26——

3,203 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Lao surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written พาลาซโซ

45 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Palazzo 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 Latvian, Palasts

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1850190019502000Luigi Palazzo, b. 1861Benedetto Palazzo, b. 1892Vittoria Palazzo, b. 1929Antonio Palazzo, b. 1937Umberto Palazzo, b. 1964Steven Palazzo, b. 1970José Palazzo, b. 1970Luca Palazzo, b. 1987Loris Palazzo, b. 1991Xenia Francesca Palazzo, b. 1998

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 24 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Palazzo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.2K#10,064
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.1K#9,662
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.9K#10,423
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—2.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—730#12,163
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024203#6,203
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—103#27,058
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—103#26,881
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200844#28,557
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—26—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Palazzo mean, and where does it come from?
A large, palatial urban building in Italy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Palazzo?
In the etymology graph, Pazo is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Palazzo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Palazzo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palazzo.
Where is Palazzo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Palazzo is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Palazzo?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,203 people named Palazzo in 2010, about 1 in 104 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, “Palazzo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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