Rotunno
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname from Neapolitan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹoʊˈtunoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rotunno is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- USUnited States
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)
a surname from Neapolitan
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rotunno is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, variante meridional de Rotundo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Rotondo
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In nap, alternative spelling of rutunno (“picarel”)
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)
- Giuseppe Rotunnob. 1923ITItalian cinematographer (1923-2021)
- Nicola Rotunnob. 1928ITroman-catholic archbishop (1928-1999)
- Pasquale Rotunnob. 1957ITItalian ethicist (born 1957)
- Donato Rotunnob. 1966ITItalian film director and film producer
- Franco Rotunnob. 1970LILiechtensteiner association football player
- Francisco Rotunnob. 1976CLChilean footballer ( 1976-2025)
- Ernesto RotunnoUYchess player
- Richard RotunnoUSatmospheric scientist
- Enzo Rotunnoresearcher
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 890 | #25,926 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 832 | #28,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 805 | #30,920 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 142 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 113 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 57 | #95,634 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 40 | #22,077 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #64,077 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 12 | — |
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 Rotunno mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Neapolitan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rotunno?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹoʊˈtunoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rotunno have the most bearers?
- Rotunno is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rotunnoThe 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, “Rotunno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.