Visconti
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Visconte
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/viˈskoʊnti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Visconti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 18K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 131K
- BRBrazil1 in 318K
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
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma plural de Visconte
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Visconti 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 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | listed | Visconti | 47 |
| US United States | 2,540 | 1 in 131K | 2.5K | Visconti | 92 |
| AR Argentina | 2,460 | 1 in 18K | 2.5K | Visconti | 59 |
| BR Brazil | 666 | 1 in 318K | 666 | Visconti | 72 |
| FR France | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 106K | 79 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 365 | 1 in 9.3K | 365 | Visconti | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | 157 | 1 in 54K | 157 | Visconti | 5 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gregory Xb. 1210ITnot in their usual namePope from 1271 to 1276
- Azzone Viscontib. 1302ITLord of Milan (1302-1339)
- Bernabò Viscontib. 1323ITLord of Milan
- Gian Galeazzo Viscontib. 1351ITfirst Duke of Milan (1351-1402)
- Filippo Maria Viscontib. 1392ITDuke of Milan
- Sebastiano Visconti Prascab. 1883ITItalian general (1883–1961)
- Luchino Viscontib. 1906ITItalian director (1906–1976)
- Tony Viscontib. 1944USAmerican record producer, musician and singer
- Mary Hopkinb. 1950GBnot in their usual nameWelsh singer
- Valentina Visconti, Duchess of OrléansIT(1371-1408) wife of Louis de Valois, Duke of Orléans
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 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,247 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #13,017 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 666 | #13,150 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 365 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 157 | #7,663 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 115 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 72 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 65 | — |
Reference works 5
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- What does the name Visconti mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Visconte Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Visconti?
- A machine transcription gives /viˈskoʊnti/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Visconti have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Visconti in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled visconti.
- How common is the name Visconti?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,540 people named Visconti in 2010, about 1 in 131 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/viscontiThe 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, “Visconti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.