Napoleón

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Italian Napoleone, from Napo, variant of Lapo, hypocoristic of Jacopo and León

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/napoleon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Napoleón is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • VEVenezuela1 in 17K
  • USUnited States1 in 67K

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)

4,933 people, 2020

Sources
197 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Napoleon in US United States, VE Venezuela, EC Ecuador and 1 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)

Italian Napoleone, from Napo, variant of Lapo, hypocoristic of Jacopo and León.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Napoleón 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 Napoleón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,9331 in 67K4.9KNapoleon197
VE Venezuela#9631,6621 in 17K1.7KNapoleon28
EC Ecuador#3721,5211 in 11K1.5KNapoleon32
SE Sweden—8631 in 12K863—6
CR Costa Rica—1331 in 38K133—16
UY Uruguay—511 in 66K51—8
NI Nicaragua#169———Napoleon19

4,933 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Napoleón is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Nigeria

    Languages: English, Greek, German

    Also written Napoleon, Ναπολεων, Ναπολέων, นโปเลียน, Napoléon

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Napoléon, Napoleon

  • Russian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Наполеон, Napoleon, Напалеон, Napoléon

  • Korean given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Canada, Philippines

    Also written Napoleon, Napoléon, 나폴레옹

18 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Napoleón Uriburu, b. 1836Napoleón Viera Altamirano, b. 1893Napoleón Rodríguez Ruiz, b. 1910Napoleón Cabrera, b. 1917Nelson Pinedo, b. 1928Napoleón Pisani, b. 1940Sergio Napoleón Leavy, b. 1963Andrés Napoleón Romero Cárdenas, b. 1967Alonso Valdéz, b. 1978

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)

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InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

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

What does the name Napoleón mean, and where does it come from?
Italian Napoleone, from Napo, variant of Lapo, hypocoristic of Jacopo and León. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
How do you pronounce Napoleón?
A machine transcription gives /napoleon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Napoleón a male or female name?
Napoleón 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.
In which country does Napoleón have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Napoleón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled napoleon.
Where is Napoleón most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Napoleón is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Napoleón?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,933 people named Napoleón in 2020, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
How common is Napoleón compared with other names?
In Nicaragua, Napoleón is the 169th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.

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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, “Napoleón” — the 169th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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