Ponti
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Ponte; também natural de localidades chamadas Ponti
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ponti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ponti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 38K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 16K
- ITItaly≈1 in 18K
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
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma plural de Ponte; também natural de localidades chamadas Ponti
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ponti 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 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Ponti | 27 |
| CN China | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Ponti | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 1,200 | 1 in 38K | 1.2K | Ponti | 59 |
| US United States | 402 | 1 in 827K | 466 | Ponti | 53 |
| CH Switzerland | 377 | 1 in 22K | 377 | Ponti | 12 |
| FR France | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 189K | 39 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 216 | 1 in 16K | 216 | Ponti | 9 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ponti is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative singular of pōns (“bridge”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pag, banana
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fax, bridge
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)
- Carlo Pontib. 1823CHItalian photographer and optician
- Gio Pontib. 1891ITItalian architect (1891–1979)
- Carlo Pontib. 1912ITItalian film producer (1912-2007)
- Michael Pontib. 1937DEGerman pianist (1937–2022)
- Guendalina Pontib. 1951lawyer
- Alex Pontib. 1953Peerage person ID=163795
- Marco Pontib. 1967ITItalian film director
- Carlo Pontib. 1968ITAmerican conductor
- Edoardo Pontib. 1973ITItalian director
- Noè Pontib. 2001CHSwiss swimmer
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 466 | #43,629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 443 | #50,912 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 402 | #51,723 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 377 | #3,486 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 216 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 39 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Ponti?
- A machine transcription gives /ponti/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Ponti mean?
- Recorded meaning: forma plural de Ponte; também natural de localidades chamadas Ponti
- In which country does Ponti have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Ponti in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ponti.
- Where is Ponti most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ponti is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ponti?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,200 people named Ponti, about 1 in 38 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/pontiThe 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, “Ponti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.