Pensabene
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname transferred from the nickname
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pʰɛnsəbin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pensabene is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- ITItaly
- AUAustralia
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)
a surname transferred from the nickname
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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)
- Giuseppe Pensabeneb. 1831ITItalian painter (1831–1913)
- Giuseppe Pensabeneb. 1898ITItalian architect
- Patrizio Pensabeneb. 1943ITItalian archaeologist (born 1943)
- Luke Pensabeneb. 1991USAmerican actor and producer
- Elisa Pensabeneb. 1991ITItalian association football player
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 395 | #49,869 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 377 | #54,637 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 375 | #58,437 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 19 | #49,437 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 10 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4 | — |
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
- What does the name Pensabene 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 Pensabene?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɛnsəbin/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pensabene have the most bearers?
- Pensabene is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pensabeneThe 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, “Pensabene”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.