Possenti
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Possente
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/pusẽti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Possenti is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- BRBrazil
- USUnited States
- ITItaly
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)forma plural de Possente
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- BRBrazil
- USUnited States
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- FRFrance
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)- Giovanni Pietro Possentib. 1618Italian painter (1618-1659)
- Carlo Possentib. 1806ITItalian engineer and politician (1806-1872)
- Gabriel Possentib. 1838ITItalian Passionist student and Catholic saint (1838–1862)
- Enrico Possentib. 1872ITItalian art historian, expert of tapestry (1872-1935)
- Eligio Possentib. 1886ITdrammaturgo italiano
- Francesco Possentib. 1899ITItalian poet
- Antonio Possentib. 1933ITItalian painter (1933-2016)
- Vittorio Possentib. 1938ITItalian philosopher (born 1938)
- Andrea Possentib. 1963ITItalian astrophysicist
- Marcello Possentib. 1992ITItalian footballer
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 696 | #12,675 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 14 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 8 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6 | #203,151 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 6 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
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 Possenti mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Possente Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Possenti?
- A machine transcription gives /pusẽti/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Possenti have the most bearers?
- Possenti is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
What do you want to know about Possenti?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/possentiThe 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, “Possenti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.