Ponticelli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de Ponte com o sufixo plural -elli; também natural de Ponticelli/Ponticello (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/pontit͡ʃelːi/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated
Ponticelli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 306 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 290K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 535K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 290K (inferred from the name graph)
306 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ponticelli
- Italian:/pontit͡ʃelːi/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/pontiseʝi/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/põtisɛlli/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)de Ponte com o sufixo plural -elli; também natural de Ponticelli/Ponticello
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ponticelli is found
(measured from records)Ponticelli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 306 | 1 in 1.1M | 306 | Ponticelli | 56 |
| BR Brazil | 197 | 1 in 1.1M | 197 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 85 | 1 in 535K | 85 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 29 | 1 in 290K | 29 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | Ponticelli | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | — | 1 |
306 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)- Lazare Ponticellib. 1897FRWorld War I veteran, piping and metal worker
- Alberto Ponticellib. 1969ITItalian comics artist
- Ilaria PonticelliITItalian philologist
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ponticelli mean, and where does it come from?
- de Ponte com o sufixo plural -elli; também natural de Ponticelli/Ponticello Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Ponticelli?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /pontit͡ʃelːi/; in Spanish /pontiseʝi/; in Portuguese /põtisɛlli/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ponticelli?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 306 people named Ponticelli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ponticelli. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ponticelli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ponticelli is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 290 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ponticelli?
- In the United States, the national register counted 306 people named Ponticelli in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ponticelli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ponticelliThe 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, “Ponticelli” — ranked 64186th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.