Santelli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de Santo com sufixo plural -elli
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɑnˈtɛɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Santelli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 130K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 187K
- ARArgentina1 in 217K
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)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- 1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)
1,469 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
de Santo com sufixo plural -elli
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Santelli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,469 | 1 in 226K | 1.5K | Santelli | 56 |
| AR Argentina | 210 | 1 in 217K | 210 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 187 | 1 in 1.1M | 187 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 45 | 1 in 187K | 45 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 33 | 1 in 1.5M | 33 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 26 | 1 in 130K | 26 | — | — |
1,469 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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). 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)
- Italo Santellib. 1866ITItalian fencer (1866–1945)
- Giuseppe Santellib. 1880ITItalian painter (1880-1956)
- César Santellib. 1889FRFrench Germanist
- Giorgio Santellib. 1897USItalian fencer
- Paul Santellib. 1898FRFrench flying ace (1898–1928)
- Claude Santellib. 1923FRFrench film director (1923-2001)
- Rick Santellib. 1953USCNBC commentator
- Alberto Santellib. 1956UYUruguayan association football player
- Jole Santellib. 1968ITItalian politician (1968–2020)
- Orazio SantelliITItalian fencer
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,703 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,116 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 852 | #29,518 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 210 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 187 | #38,819 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 45 | #20,234 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 33 | #59,588 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 33 | #58,864 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 26 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Santelli mean, and where does it come from?
- de Santo com sufixo plural -elli Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Santelli?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑnˈtɛɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Santelli have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Santelli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled santelli.
- Where is Santelli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Santelli is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 130 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Santelli?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,469 people named Santelli in 2010, about 1 in 226 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/santelliThe 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, “Santelli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.