Apollinaris
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A type of sparkling mineral water
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əpʰɑlənɛɹɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Apollinaris is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- ZASouth Africa
- KEKenya
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Greek god name Apollon; influenced by St. Apollonia
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Apollinaris is read(measured from records)
Apollinaris is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English29%
A type of sparkling mineral water.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Syrian prelate; Wilhelm, French
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
poet, aka G. Apollinaire
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German24%
from the Greek god name Apollon; influenced by St. Apollonia
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Spanish21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Apollinaris in Spanish.
- Swahili12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Apollinaris in Swahili.
- Indonesian7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Apollinaris in Indonesian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Apollinaris Jützb. 1607CH(1607-1675)
- Apollinaris von Weberb. 1685CH(1685-1761)
- Michael Dumont-Schaubergb. 1824not in their usual namemember of the Dumont family
- Jules Vanden Bulckeb. 1859BEnot in their usual namepriest, teacher, curate, pastor and director (1859-1918)
- Guillaume Apollinaireb. 1880FRnot in their usual nameFrench poet (1880–1918)
- Apollinaris William Baumgartnerb. 1899USAmerican bishop (1899-1970)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 16 | #13,459 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | WGND 2.0 — Nigeria given names | — | — | — |
| UG Uganda | WGND 2.0 — Uganda given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Apollinaris come from?
- from the Greek god name Apollon; influenced by St. Apollonia Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Apollinaris?
- A machine transcription gives /əpʰɑlənɛɹɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Apollinaris mean?
- In English, A type of sparkling mineral water.
- Is Apollinaris a male or female name?
- Apollinaris is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Apollinaris?
- In the etymology graph, Apolinar and Apolinary are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Apollinaris have the most bearers?
- Apollinaris is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/apollinarisThe 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, “Apollinaris”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.