Tedesco
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do germ. theudisk/theodisk, teuto, germânico
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tɛˈdɛskoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tedesco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 54K
- UYUruguay1 in 11K
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
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
do germ. theudisk/theodisk, teuto, germânico
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tedesco 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 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Tedesco | 80 |
| BR Brazil | 7,205 | 1 in 29K | 7.2K | — | 5 |
| US United States | 6,133 | 1 in 54K | 6.1K | Tedesco | 346 |
| AR Argentina | 2,626 | 1 in 17K | 2.6K | — | 2 |
| FR France | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 135 | — | 4 |
| LA Laos | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Tedesco | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 382 | 1 in 22K | 382 | Tedesco | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 295 | 1 in 11K | 295 | — | — |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Tedesco is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, It. 'German'; north Italian todesco, also Jewish Todesko
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Italian, origin or who spoke German, from It. tedesco German (OHG diutisc, see Deutsch). As a Jewish name, it was given to or taken by Ashkenazic Jews in Italy, or is based on a nickname given to a Jew who had been to Italy. In Lucca the vars. Todesco and To(d)eschi were also nicknames for a stammerer; in Naples the var. Todisco was a nickname for a tippling simpleton.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In German, ital. "deutsch", nordital. todesco (jüd. Todesko). Dazu Weiterb. Todeskino, Rückwande- rerfamilie; etwa "Deutsch- länder" (erste Silbe be- tont)
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedescob. 1895USItalian composer (1895–1968)
- Jean Tedescob. 1895FRFrench film director (1895–1958)
- Sergio Tedescob. 1928ITItalian actor, voice actor and tenor (1928–2012)
- Tommy Tedescob. 1930USAmerican guitarist (1930–1997)
- Juan Carlos Tedescob. 1944ARArgentine academic
- Maurizio Tedescob. 1948ITItalian film producer and film editor
- Paola Tedescob. 1952ITItalian actress
- Giovanni Tedescob. 1972ITItalian footballer
- Roberta Metsolab. 1979MTnot in their usual namePresident of the European Parliament since 2022 (born 1979)
- Domenico Tedescob. 1985ITGerman-Italian football manager
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 33 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.2K | #1,693 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.1K | #5,660 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.1K | #5,245 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.7K | #5,829 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.6K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 382 | #3,438 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 295 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 218 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 178 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 140 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 135 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 117 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Tedesco mean, and where does it come from?
- do germ. theudisk/theodisk, teuto, germânico Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Tedesco?
- A machine transcription gives /tɛˈdɛskoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tedesco have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Tedesco in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tedesco.
- How common is the name Tedesco?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,205 people named Tedesco, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tedescoThe 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, “Tedesco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.