Segna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: redução popular e coloquial de Boninsegna
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/sɛɡnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Segna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.2M
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Segna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
130 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)redução popular e coloquial de Boninsegna
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Segna 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 | 130 | 1 in 2.6M | 157 | Segna | 13 |
| BR Brazil | 97 | 1 in 2.2M | 97 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 18as Senj | 1 in 235K | 19 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| IT Italy | — | — | listed | Segna | 35 |
130 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Segna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of segn
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 Segnab. 1758Roman Catholic bishop
- Francesco Segnab. 1836ITCatholic cardinal (1836–1911)
- Elisabetta SegnaITItalian archivist
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 157 | #117,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 140 | #115,489 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 130 | #130,610 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 97 | #64,826 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Segna?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛɡnə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Segna mean?
- Recorded meaning: redução popular e coloquial de Boninsegna
- In which country does Segna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 130 people named Segna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled segna.
- Where is Segna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Segna is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.4 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Segna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 130 people named Segna in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million 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/segnaThe 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, “Segna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.