Patelli
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/patɛʎi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Patelli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 40Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 63K
- ARArgentina1 in 342K
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)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Patelli
- Spanish:/patɛʎi/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/pɐtɛlli/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/patɛlli/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Patelli is found
(measured from records)Patelli 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.
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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alberto Patellib. 1953ITItalian writer and actor
- Mauro Patellib. 1957ITItalian singer-songwriter
- Alessandra Patellib. 1991ITItalian rower
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Patelli?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /patɛʎi/; in Portuguese /pɐtɛlli/; in Italian /patɛlli/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Patelli?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Patelli in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patelli. After it come Brazil, France, Switzerland and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Patelli?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 331 people named Patelli, about 1 in 640 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Patelli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/patelliThe 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, “Patelli” — ranked 20653rd in Italy (ISTAT). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.