Apolinário
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Apollinarian (a follower of Apollinaris, who denied the proper humanity of Christ)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/a.po.liˈna.ɾi.o/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Apolinário is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 4.1K
- PEPeru≈1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Apolinario in BR Brazil, PE Peru, PH Philippines and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Apollinarian (a follower of Apollinaris, who denied the proper humanity of Christ)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Apolinário 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #361 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 2.4K | Apolinario | 118 |
| PH Philippines | #535 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Apolinario | 68 |
| PE Peru | #731 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Apolinario | 52 |
| EC Ecuador | #881 | 4,770 | 1 in 3.5K | 4.8K | Apolinario | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | #949 | 822 | 1 in 4.1K | 822 | Apolinario | 18 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- Carlos Apolináriob. 1952BRBrazilian politician
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Apolinário mean, and where does it come from?
- Apollinarian (a follower of Apollinaris, who denied the proper humanity of Christ) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Apolinário?
- In Portuguese /a.po.liˈna.ɾi.o/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Apolinário have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Apolinário in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled apolinario.
- Where is Apolinário most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Apolinário is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Apolinário?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,770 people named Apolinário in 2024, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Apolinário compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Apolinário is the 361st most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/apolin%C3%A1rioThe 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, “Apolinário” — the 361st most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.