Pappalardo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname transferred from the nickname (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/pappalaɾdo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Pappalardo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,908 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- ARArgentina1 in 33K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 58K
- USUnited States1 in 174K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
1,908 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Pappalardo
- Spanish:/pappalaɾdo/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/pap.paˈlar.do/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a surname transferred from the nickname
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pappalardo is found
(measured from records)Pappalardo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,908 | 1 in 174K | 1.9K | Pappalardo | 97 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,382 | 1 in 33K | 1.4K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 146 | 1 in 58K | 146 | Pappalardo | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 110 | 1 in 455K | 110 | Pappalardo | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 87 | 1 in 2.4M | 87 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 29 | 1 in 404K | 29 | Pappalardo | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 18 | 1 in 188K | 18 | — | — |
| IT Italy | #468 | — | — | listed | Pappalardo | 134 |
1,908 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: the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Pappalardo 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, composto de Pappa e lardo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Pappa
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)- Salvatore Pappalardob. 1918ITItalian cardinal (1918–2006)
- Adriano Pappalardob. 1945ITItalian singer and actor (born 1945)
- Salvatore Pappalardob. 1945ITItalian archbishop
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pappalardo mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname transferred from the nickname Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pappalardo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /pappalaɾdo/; in Italian /pap.paˈlar.do/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pappalardo?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Pappalardo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pappalardo. After it come Argentina, Switzerland, Spain and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pappalardo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pappalardo is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pappalardo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,908 people named Pappalardo in 2010, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
- How common is Pappalardo compared with other names?
- In Italy, Pappalardo is the 468th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pappalardo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pappalardoThe 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, “Pappalardo” — ranked 14321st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.