Scalco
surname · Latin script
Meaning: carver of meat at table, later, majordomo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zkalku/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Scalco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 98K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 61K
- BEBelgium1 in 451K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
2,168 people
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
carver of meat at table, later, majordomo
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Scalco 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 2,168 | 1 in 98K | 2.2K | Scalco | 80 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 61K | listed | Scalco | 24 |
| US United States | 187 | 1 in 1.8M | 200 | Scalco | 43 |
| FR France | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 7 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 43 | 1 in 1.1M | 43 | Scalco | 19 |
| BE Belgium | 26 | 1 in 451K | 26 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | Scalco | 5 |
2,168 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Scalco is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma reduzida de Marescalco
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, Schal| de, ch(er); Sdialk, | e, hauser (ON. Ansbach); Schälkle.Sctial- l(y), Schelk, |e(n), er, le; vgl. Senesdiall Sdialk | au, er: s. skala
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Elisa ScalcoITresearcher
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 16 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.2K | #4,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 200 | #97,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 188 | #91,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 187 | #97,210 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 43 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 26 | #40,479 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Scalco mean, and where does it come from?
- carver of meat at table, later, majordomo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Scalco?
- A machine transcription gives /zkalku/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Scalco have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Scalco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled scalco.
- How common is the name Scalco?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,168 people named Scalco, about 1 in 98 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scalcoThe 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, “Scalco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.