Putzu
surname · Italian · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Putzu is a surname, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Italian and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variante sarda de Pozzo.
- ITItaly1 in 32K◐
- CHSwitzerland1 in 4.1M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.0K ◐
- Sources
- 47 ●
- 1 in 32K ◐
across 2 countries
1.2K records
Official registry-verified
Italy
Meaning & origin●
variante sarda de Pozzo.
Sources 2
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈2K | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 32K | — | Putzu | 47 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈2 | 5 rec. | 1 in 4.1M | 30 | Putzu | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | — | — | 21 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | — | 11 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | 18 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | 11 | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | — | 15 | — | — |
Roughly 2K people in Italy bear this name (about 1 in 32K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Italian1.2K46%
- French49019%
- English46418%
- German2259%
- Spanish1395%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Italian | 1,209 | 46% |
| French | 490 | 19% |
| English | 464 | 18% |
| German | 225 | 9% |
| Spanish | 139 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1911 | 2 |
| 1921 | 8 |
| 1931 | 9 |
| 1941 | 6 |
| 1951 | 13 |
| 1961 | 34 |
| 1971 | 16 |
| 1981 | 14 |
| 1991 | 18 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 9 years between 1911–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Piero Putzub. 1960photographer
- Maria Giovanna Putzub. 1969ITItalian architect and restorer (1969-)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 34 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 30 | #27,377 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 21 | #46,743 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 15 | #54,856 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 13 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 11 | #54,354 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 8 | — |
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 2026-09-06 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Putzu?
- We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Putzu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Putzu have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.0 thousand people bear Putzu in Italy, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled putzu.
- Where is Putzu most common?
- Putzu is densest in Italy, where we estimate about 1 in 32 thousand people carry it.
- What does the name Putzu mean?
- Recorded meaning: variante sarda de Pozzo.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Putzu”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.