Santella

surname · Latin script

Meaning: de Santo com sufixo feminino singular -ella (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/santeʝa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain

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Santella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 839 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • UYUruguay1 in 178K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 342K
  • USUnited States1 in 396K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

839 people, 2010

Record sources
61 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 178K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

How to pronounce Santella

  • Spanish:/santeʝa/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Italian:/santɛlla/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

de Santo com sufixo feminino singular -ella

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where the surname Santella is found

(measured from records)

Santella 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 Santella is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8391 in 396K849Santella61
AR Argentina1331 in 342K133Santella29
BR Brazil811 in 2.6M81Santella28
ES Spain271 in 1.9M27Santella15
UY Uruguay191 in 178K19—3
CH Switzerland101 in 840K10—1
NO Norway81 in 683K8——

839 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1960197019801990Luca Santella, b. 1963Valia Santella, b. 1965Anthony Santella, b. 1988

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)
FormalDear Santella,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Santella mean, and where does it come from?
de Santo com sufixo feminino singular -ella Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Santella?
It depends on the language: in Spanish /santeʝa/; in Italian /santɛlla/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Santella?
In the United States, the national register counted about 839 people named Santella, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled santella. After it come Argentina, Brazil, Spain and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Santella most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Santella is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 178 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Santella?
In the United States, the national register counted 839 people named Santella in 2010, about 1 in 396 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, “Santella” — ranked 28437th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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