Papalia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: composto de Papa e Elia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɑˈpɑɫiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Papalia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 66K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 753K
- ITItaly≈1 in 45K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
composto de Papa e Elia
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Papalia 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 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 45K | listed | Papalia | 31 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Papalia | 1 |
| US United States | 442 | 1 in 753K | 464 | Papalia | 145 |
| AU Australia | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Papalia | 91 |
| FR France | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 242K | 31 | — | 3 |
| GH Ghana | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 256K | — | Papalia | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Papalia | 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; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Papalia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Papa
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of pāpālis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Giuseppe Papaliab. 1897ITItalian politician, lawyer and mayor (1897-1964)
- Johnny Papaliab. 1924ITitalian-Canadian mobster
- Antonino Papaliab. 1924ITItalian politician (1924-1985)
- Antonio Papaliab. 1954ITItalian criminal
- Paul Papaliab. 1962AUWestern Australian politician
- Rocco Papaliab. 1977ITItalian researcher
- Melanie Papaliab. 1984CACanadian actress
- Diane E. Papaliab. 2000USAmerican psychologist
- Claudio Papaliab. 2000ITItalian experimental film maker
- Chiara PapaliaITauthor of Bollettino AIB
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 464 | #43,798 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 442 | #47,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 436 | #51,542 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Papalia mean, and where does it come from?
- composto de Papa e Elia Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Papalia?
- A machine transcription gives /pɑˈpɑɫiə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Papalia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Papalia in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled papalia.
- How common is the name Papalia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 442 people named Papalia in 2010, about 1 in 753 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/papaliaThe 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, “Papalia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.