Scorza
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: epidote in the form of sand
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/skoɾθa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Scorza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 15K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 67K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 232K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
675 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
name for a vicious man, from a deriv. of It. scorzare to skin, flay (L excoriare, frpm corium skin, hide). Var.: Scorcia. Dims.: Scorzelli, Scorziellp, Scorzetti. Augs.: Scorzon(e), Scorsoije.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Scorza is read(measured from records)
Scorza is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish41%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Scorza in Spanish.
- English35%
epidote in the form of sand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian8.3%
name for a vicious man, from a deriv. of It. scorzare to skin, flay (L excoriare, frpm corium skin, hide). Var.: Scorcia. Dims.: Scorzelli, Scorziellp, Scorzetti. Augs.: Scorzon(e), Scorsoije.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
bark (of a tree)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. scortea ‘pele’; pode referir coletor/vendedor de cascas ou apelativo depreciativo
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Portuguese8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Scorza in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Scorza 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 675 | 1 in 67K | 675 | — | — |
| US United States | 409 | 1 in 813K | 434 | Scorza | 43 |
| BR Brazil | 327 | 1 in 647K | 327 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 219 | 1 in 15K | 219 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 78 | 1 in 641K | 78 | Scorza | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 22 | 1 in 232K | 22 | — | — |
675 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Giovanni Battista Scorzab. 15531553-1627
- Sinibaldo Scorzab. 1589ITItalian painter (1589-1631)
- Giuseppe Scorzab. 1781ITmathematician from Italy
- Gaetano Scorzab. 1876ITItalian mathematician (1876-1939)
- Carlo Scorzab. 1897ITItalian politician (1897-1988)
- Giuseppe Scorza Dragonib. 1908ITItalian mathematician (1908-1996)
- Manuel Scorzab. 1928PEPeruvian writer (1928–1983)
- Guido Scorzab. 1973ITItalian lawyer, journalist and blogger
- Enzo Scorzab. 1988UYUruguayan footballer
- Bruno Scorzab. 2000UYUruguayan 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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 675 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 434 | #51,779 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 409 | #50,960 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 401 | #49,249 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 327 | #24,600 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 219 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 78 | #32,934 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 78 | #32,674 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 23 | #33,003 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 22 | #3,422 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Scorza come from?
- name for a vicious man, from a deriv. of It. scorzare to skin, flay (L excoriare, frpm corium skin, hide). Var.: Scorcia. Dims.: Scorzelli, Scorziellp, Scorzetti. Augs.: Scorzon(e), Scorsoije. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Scorza?
- A machine transcription gives /skoɾθa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Scorza mean?
- In English, epidote in the form of sand
- In which country does Scorza have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 675 people named Scorza, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Scorza most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Scorza is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Scorza?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 675 people named Scorza, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Scorza?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scorzaThe 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, “Scorza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.