Nàpoli

surname · Latin script

Nàpoli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polis), from νέᾱ (néā, “new”) + πόλῐς (pólis, “city”).

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 10K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 19K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 21K

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)

5,127 people, 2010

Record sources
179 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)
Derivation of Nàpoli: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Nàpoli
  1. LatinNeāpolis(measured from records)
  2. Ancient GreekΝεᾱ́πολῐςNeā́polis(measured from records)
  3. Ancient Greek rootνέᾱnéā“new”(measured from records)

From Latin Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polis), from νέᾱ (néā, “new”) + πόλῐς (pólis, “city”).

Cited for this meaning 7

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Nàpoli 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 Nàpoli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5,1271 in 65K5.1K—109
AR Argentina2,3391 in 19K2.3K—1
BR Brazil2,1611 in 98K2.2K——
CH Switzerland4021 in 21K402—8
UY Uruguay3341 in 10K334——
BE Belgium1231 in 95K123—16

5,127 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). 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)

Nàpoli is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Napoli, Ňäpôli, Ńápoli

  • a separate name13 spellings in the group

    Also written Napoli, Наполи, Napolì, Nápoli, Nâpolî

3 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nàpoli under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nàpoli mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polis), from νέᾱ (néā, “new”) + πόλῐς (pólis, “city”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
In which country does Nàpoli have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Nàpoli, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Nàpoli most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nàpoli is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nàpoli?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,127 people named Nàpoli in 2010, about 1 in 65 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, “Nàpoli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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