The Tartaglia surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,214 people carried this name — #13,674 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 133,300 people counted. That is up 1% from 2,190 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Tartaglia surname
From tartaglia, inflection of tartagliare (“to stutter”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Tartaglia» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 527 people named Tartaglia live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
99 people named Tartaglia live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 82 people named Tartaglia.
Most of them — 44 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Tartaglia in American newspapers,
1918.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
Who carried it
People named Tartaglia,
with a public archive behind them.
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Angelo Tartaglia 1370–1421 · condottiero -
Ivo Tartaglia 1880–1949 · politician -
Ivo Tartaglia 1880–1949 · politician
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Ivo Tartaglia 1880–1949 · politician
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Ivo Tartaglia 1880–1949 · politician
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Nicola Tartaglia d. 1459 · Catholic priest
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tartaglia.
- Taron 163 · U.S. census
- Tarpinian 310 · U.S. census
- Tarquini 173 · U.S. census
- Tarrago 140 · U.S. census
- Tarricone 277 · U.S. census
- Tarry 1,053 · U.S. census
- Tartar 153 · U.S. census
- Tarte 431 · U.S. census
- Tary 130 · U.S. census
- Tas 192 · U.S. census
- Tasca 427 · U.S. census
- Tascon 243 · U.S. census
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