Stifani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variante meridional de Stefani
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stifani/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stifani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 55K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 137K
- BEBelgium1 in 345K
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
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈460 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variante meridional de Stefani
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stifani 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 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 137K | listed | Stifani | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 154 | 1 in 55K | 154 | Stifani | 5 |
| FR France | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 9 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 34 | 1 in 345K | 34 | Stifani | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Stifani | 18 |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Stifani 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, Variante di Stefani
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Luigi Stifanib. 1914ITItalian violinist
- François Stifanib. 1947FRFrench jurist and lawyer
- Stefano StifaniUSresearcher
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 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 154 | #7,796 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 34 | #34,169 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #14,815 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
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 Stifani mean, and where does it come from?
- variante meridional de Stefani Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Stifani?
- A machine transcription gives /stifani/ (IPA) for Italian.
- In which country does Stifani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 457 people named Stifani in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stifani.
- Where is Stifani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stifani is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 55 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stifani?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 154 people named Stifani in 2024, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stifaniThe 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, “Stifani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.