Policastro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oriundo de Policastro; de poli ‘cidade’ e Castro ‘fortificação’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/poʊɫiˈkæstɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Policastro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 302K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 69K
- ARArgentina1 in 94K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
oriundo de Policastro; de poli ‘cidade’ e Castro ‘fortificação’
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Policastro 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Policastro | 1 |
| US United States | 1,100 | 1 in 302K | 1.1K | Policastro | 195 |
| IT Italy | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 69K | listed | Policastro | 17 |
| AR Argentina | 483 | 1 in 94K | 483 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 379 | 1 in 559K | 379 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Policastro | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Policastro | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
- Paul Policastrob. 1900USAmerican politician
- Pasquale Policastrob. 1959ITItalian jurist (born 1959)
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,776 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,185 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,641 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 483 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 379 | #21,740 |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Policastro?
- A machine transcription gives /poʊɫiˈkæstɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Policastro mean?
- Recorded meaning: oriundo de Policastro; de poli ‘cidade’ e Castro ‘fortificação’
- In which country does Policastro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Policastro in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled policastro.
- How common is the name Policastro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,100 people named Policastro in 2010, about 1 in 302 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/policastroThe 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, “Policastro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.