Spagna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Spain (a country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈspæɡnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Spagna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 189K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 53K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
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
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
424 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Spain (a country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spagna 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 | 424 | 1 in 785K | 424 | Spagna | 21 |
| AR Argentina | 241 | 1 in 189K | 241 | Spagna | 26 |
| UY Uruguay | 64 | 1 in 53K | 64 | Spagna | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 63 | 1 in 3.4M | 63 | Spagna | 21 |
| ES Spain | 19 | 1 in 2.6M | 19 | Spagna | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 9 | 1 in 1.3M | 9 | — | — |
424 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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); 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)
Spagna 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 Italian, oriundo da Spagna, isto é, Espanha; do lat. Hispania.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Alessandro Spagnab. 1890ITItalian politician
- Butch Spagnab. 1897USAmerican football player (1897-1948)
- Spagnab. 1954ITItalian singer (born 1954)
- Silvia Spagnab. 1994ITItalian association football player
- Irene Spagnab. 1994ITItalian association football player
- Giorgio SpagnaITItalian musician, songwriter, record producer
- Alfredo SpagnaUSresearcher
- Fabrizio Spagnadocumentary filmmaker from Italy
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 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 424 | #49,546 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 424 | #47,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 411 | #54,177 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 241 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 64 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 63 | #89,008 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19 | #86,409 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 9 | #78,170 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Spagna mean, and where does it come from?
- Spain (a country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Spagna?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈspæɡnə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Spagna?
- In the etymology graph, Spagnolo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Spagna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 424 people named Spagna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spagna.
- Where is Spagna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Spagna is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 53 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Spagna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 424 people named Spagna in 2010, about 1 in 785 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/spagnaThe 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, “Spagna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.