Vignola

• Spanish:/biɣnola/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Italian:/viɲola/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Vignola is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English46%

  Giacomo da, Renaissance Italian

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  architect

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Spanish28%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Vignola in Spanish.

• French8.3%

  voir Fiola

  as a name·Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

• Italian7.8%

  a small town in Modena, Emilia-Romagna

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  de Vigna com sufixo singular -ola; habitante de lugar chamado Vignola

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  Variante di Vigna

  as a name·Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

• Jacopo Barozzi da Vignolab. 1507ITItalian architect (1507–1573)
• Robert G. Vignolab. 1882USAmerican artist (1882–1953)
• Beniamino Vignolab. 1959ITItalian 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).

22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Vignola?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /biɣnola/; in Italian /viɲola/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Vignola?

In the United States, the national register counted about 822 people named Vignola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vignola. After it come Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Vignola most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vignola is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 9.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Vignola?

In the United States, the national register counted 822 people named Vignola in 2010, about 1 in 405 thousand residents.