Pennacchi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do lat. pinnaculum; penacho, adereço de penas
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/penas͡ʃi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Pennacchi is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- FRFrance
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)do lat. pinnaculum; penacho, adereço de penas
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- ARArgentina
- ITItaly
- BRBrazil
- FRFrance
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Pier Maria Pennacchib. 1464ITItalian painter (1464-1515)
- Giuseppe Pennacchib. 1831ITItalian priest and Church historian (1831-1913)
- Francesco Pennacchib. 1860ITItalian Church historian (1860-1932)
- Fulvio Pennacchib. 1905BRBrazilian artist (1905-1992)
- Laura Pennacchib. 1948ITItalian politician
- Francesco Pennacchib. 1949ITItalian economist (born 1949)
- Antonio Pennacchib. 1950ITItalian writer (1950-2021)
- Andrea Pennacchib. 1969ITItalian actor and director
- Giulio Pennacchib. 1993ITItalian screenwriter
- Mauro PennacchiITresearcher
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 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 118 | #55,876 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 97 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Pennacchi?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /penas͡ʃi/; in Italian /penːakːi/; in Portuguese /pẽnɐkt͡ʃi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Pennacchi mean?
- Recorded meaning: do lat. pinnaculum; penacho, adereço de penas
- In which country does Pennacchi have the most bearers?
- Pennacchi is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pennacchiThe 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, “Pennacchi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.