Pazienza
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patience, endurance, forbearance
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/pæzinzə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pazienza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 48K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 139K
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
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)patience, endurance, forbearance
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pazienza 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 | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 48K | listed | Pazienza | 35 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Pazienza | 1 |
| US United States | — | 297 | 1 in 1.1M | 297 | Pazienza | 132 |
| FR France | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 11 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 16 | Pazienza | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 338K | listed | Pazienza | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | 20 | 1 in 586K | 20 | Pazienza | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Pazienza | 1 |
| NR Nauru | #646 | — | — | — | Pazienza | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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)- Michele Pazienzab. 1928ITItalian politician
- Francesco Pazienzab. 1946ITItalian businessman, former officer of the Italian military intelligence agency (1946–2025)
- Claudio Pazienzab. 1962ITItalien film director
- Giulia Pazienzab. 1962ITItalian basketball player (born 1962)
- Michele Pazienzab. 1982ITItalian footballer (born 1982)
- Emanuele Pazienzab. 2000DEGerman singer
- Valerio Pazienzaresearcher
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 297 | #66,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 295 | #63,297 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 277 | #75,111 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 20 | #48,116 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 7 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Pazienza mean, and where does it come from?
- patience, endurance, forbearance Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pazienza?
- A machine transcription gives /pæzinzə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pazienza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Pazienza in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pazienza.
- How common is the name Pazienza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 297 people named Pazienza in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Pazienza compared with other names?
- In Nauru, Pazienza is the 646th most common surname of 1,280 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pazienzaThe 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, “Pazienza” — the 646th most common surname in Nauru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.