Puglia

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Apulia (a peninsula and administrative region in southern Italy)

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

Puglia is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Italy.

rarermore common
  • 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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
96 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Apulia (a peninsula and administrative region in southern Italy)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Puglia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Puglia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—listedPuglia96
US United States—1.1K—94
UY Uruguay—1.1K——
BR Brazil—877——
AR Argentina—576——

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: the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Puglia is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Apulia

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Пулья

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Puglia 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, oriundo da região da Puglia.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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)

16001700180019002000Giuseppe Puglia, b. 1600Achille Puglia, b. 1691Alessandro Puglia, b. 1802Giuseppe Mario Puglia, b. 1823Frank Puglia, b. 1892José Adolfo Puglia, b. 1921Sergio Puglia, b. 1950Enzo Puglia, b. 1956Sergio Puglia, b. 1972Marianne Puglia, b. 1985

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 28 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Puglia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#23,036
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#22,827
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#21,742
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—1.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—877#10,416
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—576—
IT ItalyDizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978)———
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Puglia mean, and where does it come from?
Apulia (a peninsula and administrative region in southern Italy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Puglia have the most bearers?
Puglia is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled puglia.

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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, “Puglia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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