Puccini

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Italian: various given names with the final consonant p, as for ex¬ ample Filippo (see Philip), Giuseppe (see Joseph), and Jacopo (see Jacob). Pruneau see Plum Prunner see Bourne

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Puccini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 87K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 165K
  • BRBrazil1 in 487K

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.

United States (measured from records)

526 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
4 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PucciniLatin(measured from records)
ПуччиниCyrillic(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

various given names with the final consonant p, as for ex¬ ample Filippo (see Philip), Giuseppe (see Joseph), and Jacopo (see Jacob). Pruneau see Plum Prunner see Bourne

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

How Puccini is read(measured from records)

Puccini is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English40%

    Giacomo, Italian composer

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Spanish25%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Puccini in Spanish.

  • Portuguese10%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Puccini in Portuguese.

  • Italian9.1%

    various given names with the final consonant p, as for ex¬ ample Filippo (see Philip), Giuseppe (see Joseph), and Jacopo (see Jacob). Pruneau see Plum Prunner see Bourne

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

    de Puccio com sufixo plural -ini.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

    Variante di Pucci

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • French9.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Puccini in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Puccini 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.

Where Puccini is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5261 in 632K558—3
BR Brazil4351 in 487K435——
AR Argentina2761 in 165K276——
ES Spain721 in 695K72——
UY Uruguay391 in 87K39——
BE Belgium201 in 586K20——

526 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)

Puccini 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 Croatian, talijanski skladatelj opera verističkog smjera u kojima je sačuvao i elemente nježne i osjećajne romantične lirike, što im je održalo trajnu popularnost ( Manon Lescaut , La Bohème , Tosca , Madame Butterfly , Turandot )

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

1700180019002000Giacomo Puccini, b. 1712Antonio Puccini, b. 1747Michele Puccini, b. 1813Giacomo Puccini, b. 1858Mario Puccini, b. 1869Mario Puccini, b. 1887Gianni Puccini, b. 1914Massimo Mida, b. 1917Alessandro Puccini, b. 1968Vittoria Puccini, b. 1981

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Puccini
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020558#41,948
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000538#38,644
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010526#41,359
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—435#19,272
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—276—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—72#34,767
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—72#34,546
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—39—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200820#47,561
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Puccini mean, and where does it come from?
various given names with the final consonant p, as for ex¬ ample Filippo (see Philip), Giuseppe (see Joseph), and Jacopo (see Jacob). Pruneau see Plum Prunner see Bourne Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
In which country does Puccini have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 526 people named Puccini, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Puccini most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Puccini is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 87 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Puccini?
In the United States, the national register counted 526 people named Puccini in 2010, about 1 in 632 thousand residents.

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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, “Puccini”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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