Zecca

surname · Latin script

Meaning: mint (factory for producing coinage)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈzɛkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Zecca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 48K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 83K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 146K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

677 people, 2010

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

mint (factory for producing coinage)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zecca 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.

Where Zecca is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6771 in 491K677Zecca11
AR Argentina2991 in 152K299——
BR Brazil1351 in 1.6M135——
CH Switzerland1011 in 83K101——
UY Uruguay701 in 48K70——
BE Belgium631 in 186K63——
CR Costa Rica351 in 146K35——

677 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zecca is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian

    Also written Зекка, Zekka

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Vincenzo Zecca, b. 1832Smeraldo Zecca, b. 1857Ferdinand Zecca, b. 1864Adriano Zecca, b. 1923Agostina Zecca Laterza, b. 1935Alfredo Zecca, b. 1949Jean-Michel Zecca, b. 1968Emiliano Zecca, b. 1985Emy Zecca, b. 1987Giacomo Zecca, b. 1997

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)

FormalDear Zecca,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Zecca
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010677#33,645
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000644#33,425
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020635#37,662
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—299—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—135#50,347
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024101#10,978
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—70—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200863#22,178
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—35#2,632
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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 Zecca mean, and where does it come from?
mint (factory for producing coinage) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Zecca?
In the etymology graph, Tick is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Zecca?
A machine transcription gives /ˈzɛkə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Zecca have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 677 people named Zecca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zecca.
Where is Zecca most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zecca is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zecca?
In the United States, the national register counted 677 people named Zecca in 2010, about 1 in 491 thousand residents.

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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, “Zecca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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