Pugliese
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Of or relating to Puglia (“Apulia”) in Italy
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/puɡɫiˈeɪzi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pugliese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 65K
- UYUruguay1 in 7.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 301 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Of or relating to Puglia (“Apulia”) in Italy.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pugliese is read(measured from records)
Pugliese is one spelling over 3 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.
- English47%
Of or relating to Puglia (“Apulia”) in Italy.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Pugliese in Spanish.
- Italian9.0%
Apulian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
habitante da Puglia, com sufixo -ese.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Pugliese 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | listed | Pugliese | 86 |
| CN China | — | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Pugliese | 4 |
| US United States | — | 5,126 | 1 in 65K | 5.1K | Pugliese | 301 |
| AR Argentina | — | 4,754 | 1 in 9.6K | 4.8K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,417 | 1 in 149K | 1.4K | — | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 460 | 1 in 7.4K | 460 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 301 | 1 in 28K | 301 | Pugliese | 19 |
| JM Jamaica | #539 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Pugliese | 1 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Pugliese 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.
Publia, Italia
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, 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)
- Umberto Puglieseb. 1880ITgeneral in the Royal Italian Navy
- Frank Puglieseb. 1901USAmerican TV writer and artistic director
- Osvaldo Puglieseb. 1905ARArgentine pianist and tango composer (1905–1995)
- Sergio Puglieseb. 1908ITItalian writer and journalist (1908–1965)
- Oronzo Puglieseb. 1910ITItalian football manager (1910-1990)
- Antonio Puglieseb. 1941ITItalian professional and amateur wrestler (1941–2000)
- Antonio Gazzanti Pugliese di Cotroneb. 1960ITItalian notary and diplomat (born 1960)
- Dina Puglieseb. 1974CACanadian television personality
- Nick Puglieseb. 1985USAmerican baseball player
- Mario Puglieseb. 1996ITItalian 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 32 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.1K | #6,609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5K | #6,279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.8K | #6,728 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,698 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 460 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 301 | #4,347 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Pugliese mean, and where does it come from?
- Of or relating to Puglia (“Apulia”) in Italy. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pugliese?
- A machine transcription gives /puɡɫiˈeɪzi/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Pugliese?
- In the etymology graph, Puglisi is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pugliese have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Pugliese in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pugliese.
- How common is the name Pugliese?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,126 people named Pugliese in 2010, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
- How common is Pugliese compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Pugliese is the 539th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/puglieseThe 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, “Pugliese” — the 539th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.