Tavella
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/taβeʎa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tavella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 677K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 25K
- UYUruguay1 in 72K
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
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
1,814 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tavella 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 | 1,814 | 1 in 25K | 1.8K | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 549 | 1 in 386K | 549 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 491 | 1 in 677K | 491 | Tavella | 151 |
| ES Spain | 50 | 1 in 1M | 50 | Tavella | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | 47 | 1 in 72K | 47 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 4 |
1,814 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Tavella is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a form of hollow tile
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, seedpod
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)
- Carlo Antonio Tavellab. 1668ITItalian painter (1668-1738)
- Angiola Tavellab. 1698ITItalian painter (1698-1746)
- Franz Tavellab. 1844ITItalian sculptor (1844-1931)
- Aldo Tavellab. 1909ITItalian painter (1909-2004)
- Leo Tavellab. 1920ARArgentinian sculptor
- Renato Tavellab. 1947ITItalian writer
- Dominick Tavellab. 1950USSound engineer
- Santiago Tavellab. 1961UYUruguayan visual artist and musician (born 1961)
- Julia Annb. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
- Aylon Darwin Tavellab. 1992BRBrazilian association football player
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 549 | #15,656 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 491 | #43,885 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 469 | #43,377 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 456 | #49,748 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 50 | #44,810 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 50 | #44,350 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 47 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Tavella?
- A machine transcription gives /taβeʎa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Tavella have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Tavella, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tavella most common?
- Tavella is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tavella?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,814 people named Tavella, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tavella?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tavellaThe 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, “Tavella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.