Vacca
surname · Latin script
Meaning: denoting a cowherd (see Vaccaro) or a gentle person
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/baska/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Vacca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 22K
- ARArgentina1 in 37K
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
- 283 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 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
(measured from records)denoting a cowherd (see Vaccaro) or a gentle person. Var.: Vacchi. Dims.; It.: Vacchelli. Fr.; Vachet(te); Vachey (Burgundy); Vachez (N France); Vachon, Vachot, Vachoux (E France); Vacquez, Vacquin (Normandy).
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Vacca is found
(measured from records)Vacca 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 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | listed | Vacca | 59 |
| US United States | 2,586 | 1 in 129K | 2.6K | Vacca | 283 |
| AR Argentina | 1,220 | 1 in 37K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 93 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 114 | Vacca | 53 |
| UY Uruguay | 153 | 1 in 22K | 153 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 105 | 1 in 80K | 105 | Vacca | 12 |
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 xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)Vacca is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do lat. vacca; alude a criador, pastor ou mercador de bovinos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of vaca.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Corsican, cow (female cattle)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, excrement
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, stomach
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)- Giovanni Vaccab. 1810ITItalian politician
- Giovanni Vaccab. 1872ITItalian mathematician and sinologist (1872–1953)
- Claudio Vaccab. 1915ARArgentine footballer (1915-1985)
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 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Vacca come from?
- denoting a cowherd (see Vaccaro) or a gentle person. Var.: Vacchi. Dims.; It.: Vacchelli. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What are other forms of the name Vacca?
- In the etymology graph, Vaccaro is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Vacca?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /baska/; in Italian /ˈvak.ka/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Vacca mean?
- Recorded meaning: denoting a cowherd (see Vaccaro) or a gentle person.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vacca?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Vacca in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vacca. After it come United States, Argentina, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vacca?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,586 people named Vacca in 2010, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vaccaThe 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, “Vacca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.