Terranova
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/teraˈnoba/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Terranova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 5.5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 47K
- ARArgentina1 in 56K
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)
- Record sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Terranova is found
(measured from records)Terranova 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 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | listed | Terranova | 57 |
| US United States | 3,271 | 1 in 102K | 3.3K | Terranova | 296 |
| AR Argentina | 805 | 1 in 56K | 805 | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 106K | 79 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 109K | 59 | Terranova | 46 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 6 | Terranova | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 178 | 1 in 47K | 178 | — | 12 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Terranova | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)Terranova 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, Newfoundland (a large island of the coast of eastern Canada, part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, composto de Terra e nova; pode indicar habitante de Terranova
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)- Osvaldo Terranovab. 1924ARArgentine actor (1924–1984)
- Nadia Terranovab. 1978ITItalian writer and blogger
- Emanuele Terranovab. 1987ITItalian footballer
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Terranova?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /teraˈnoba/ (Wiktionary); in Italian /ˌtɛr.raˈnɔ.va/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Terranova?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Terranova in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled terranova. After it come United States, Argentina, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Terranova?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,271 people named Terranova in 2010, about 1 in 102 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/terranovaThe 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, “Terranova”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.