Seminara
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oriundo da cidade calabresa de Seminara; nome do lat
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˌsɛmɪˈnɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Seminara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 500K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 23K
- SSSouth Sudan≈1 in 36K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
oriundo da cidade calabresa de Seminara; nome do lat. seminarium, sementeira
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Seminara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Seminara | 41 |
| US United States | — | 665 | 1 in 500K | 665 | Seminara | 180 |
| AR Argentina | — | 567 | 1 in 80K | 567 | — | — |
| SS South Sudan | #929 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Seminara | 1 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 309K | — | Seminara | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 107 | 1 in 79K | 107 | Seminara | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | 97 | 1 in 121K | 97 | Seminara | 8 |
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); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Seminara 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 plural of seminar
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)
- Fortunato Seminarab. 1903ITItalian writer and journalist (1903–1984)
- Sergio Seminarab. 1956ITItalian jurist (born 1956)
- Franco Seminarab. 1958BEBelgian politician
- Elvira Seminarab. 1959ITItalian journalist
- Frank Seminarab. 1967USformer American baseball player
- Lisa Seminarab. 1968USAmerican politician
- Stefano Seminarab. 1970ITorientalist (1970-)
- Agnese Seminarab. 1980FRresearcher
- Davide Seminarab. 1998ITItalian football player
- Salvatore Seminararesearcher
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 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 665 | #34,149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 660 | #32,782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 586 | #40,323 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 567 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 107 | #10,464 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 97 | #15,923 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Seminara?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌsɛmɪˈnɑɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Seminara mean?
- Recorded meaning: oriundo da cidade calabresa de Seminara; nome do lat.
- In which country does Seminara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Seminara in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seminara.
- How common is the name Seminara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 665 people named Seminara in 2010, about 1 in 500 thousand residents.
- How common is Seminara compared with other names?
- In South Sudan, Seminara is the 929th most common surname of 3,406 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seminaraThe 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, “Seminara” — the 929th most common surname in South Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.