Piscopo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from Neapolitan [in turn originating as an occupation, in turn from Latin, in turn from Ancient Greek]
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Piscopo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 338K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 12K
- MTMalta≈1 in 26K
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)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Neapolitan[in(measured from records)
- AncientGreek](measured from records)
A surname from Neapolitan [in turn originating as an occupation, in turn from Latin, in turn from Ancient Greek].
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Piscopo is read(measured from records)
Piscopo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English62%
A surname from Neapolitan [in turn originating as an occupation, in turn from Latin, in turn from Ancient Greek].
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Joseph Charles, US actor, comedian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Italian18%
forma popular, redução de Episcopo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Episcopo
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Spanish5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Piscopo in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Piscopo 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 | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Piscopo | 46 |
| US United States | — | 983 | 1 in 338K | 983 | Piscopo | 227 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 290K | 93 | Piscopo | 42 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Piscopo | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Piscopo | 76 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 68 | 1 in 124K | 68 | Piscopo | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 36 | 1 in 94K | 36 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Piscopo | 1 |
| MT Malta | #225 | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Piscopo | 25 |
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 italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Piscopo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nap, bishop
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Vittorio Piscopob. 1913ITItalian painter and scenographer (1913-2004)
- Ugo Piscopob. 1934ITItalian writer and literary critic (1934-2022)
- Joe Piscopob. 1951USAmerican actor
- Matteo Piscopob. 1954CAassociation football player
- Fabrizio Piscopob. 1956ITItalian journalist
- Edoardo Piscopob. 1988ITracecar driver
- Alessandra Piscopoactress
- Filippo PiscopoITItalian documentary filmmaker
- Francesco PiscopoItalian teacher, writer and poet
- Alessandro PiscopoGBcomputer scientist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 983 | #25,202 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 976 | #24,115 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 918 | #27,777 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 93 | #34,663 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 68 | #14,835 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 36 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| 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 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Piscopo mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Neapolitan [in turn originating as an occupation, in turn from Latin, in turn from Ancient Greek]. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Piscopo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Piscopo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled piscopo.
- How common is the name Piscopo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 983 people named Piscopo in 2010, about 1 in 338 thousand residents.
- How common is Piscopo compared with other names?
- In Malta, Piscopo is the 225th most common surname of 5,132 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piscopoThe 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, “Piscopo” — the 225th most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.