Pozzo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do lat. puteus, poço; cavador de poços ou habitante de locais chamados Pozzo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pot̪so/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pozzo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 13K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 30K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 140K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
1,519 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
do lat. puteus, poço; cavador de poços ou habitante de locais chamados Pozzo
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pozzo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,519 | 1 in 30K | 1.5K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 1,194 | 1 in 177K | 1.2K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 269 | 1 in 13K | 269 | — | — |
| US United States | 228 | 1 in 1.5M | 228 | Pozzo | 69 |
| CH Switzerland | 60 | 1 in 140K | 60 | Pozzo | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 12 | 1 in 977K | 12 | Pozzo | 3 |
1,519 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pozzo 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 Italian, well, a dig as a source of water
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)
- Andrea Pozzob. 1642ITpainter of the Late Baroque (1642-1709)
- Paolo Pozzob. 1741ITItalian architect
- Vittorio Pozzob. 1886ITItalian football player and manager (1886-1968)
- Giampaolo Pozzob. 1941ITItalian businessman and association football club owner
- Guido Pozzob. 1951ITItalian Roman Catholic archbishop
- Riccardo Pozzob. 1959ITItalian philosopher (born 1959)
- Gino Pozzob. 1965Italian businessman (born 1965)
- Gabriel Pozzob. 1979ARArgentine rally driver
- Mattia Pozzob. 1989ITcyclist
- Tomás Pozzob. 2000ARArgentine professional 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)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,858 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 269 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 228 | #87,624 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 228 | #82,613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 189 | #90,652 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 60 | #16,209 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #64,587 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Pozzo?
- A machine transcription gives /pot̪so/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Pozzo mean?
- Recorded meaning: do lat. puteus, poço; cavador de poços ou habitante de locais chamados Pozzo
- In which country does Pozzo have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Pozzo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pozzo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pozzo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pozzo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,519 people named Pozzo, about 1 in 30 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/pozzoThe 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, “Pozzo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.