Pálmi

given name · Latin script

Meaning: palm tree

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

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

Pálmi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 928K
  • DKDenmark1 in 978K

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.

Iceland (measured from records)

262 people, 2026

Sources
5 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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)

palm tree

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pálmi 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 Pálmi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IS Iceland2621 in 1.3K297——
SE Sweden111 in 928K11——
DK Denmark61 in 978K6——
HU Hungary———Pálmi5
FI Finland——373——

262 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Pálmi is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Palmi, Palmí

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Spain, Venezuela, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Palmi, Palmí

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Palmi

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pálmi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Faroese, palm (tropical tree)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Pálmi Hannesson, b. 1898Pálmi Jónsson, b. 1923Pálmi Jónsson, b. 1929Pálmi Gunnarsson, b. 1950Pálmi Gestsson, b. 1957Pálmi Rafn Pálmason, b. 1984

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Pálmi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005)2005297#127
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026262—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—7#40,009
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6#9,732
IS IcelandMannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names———

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 Pálmi mean, and where does it come from?
palm tree Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Pálmi?
A machine transcription gives /pʰaulmɪ/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
Is Pálmi a male or female name?
Pálmi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Pálmi have the most bearers?
In Iceland, the national register counted about 262 people named Pálmi, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pálmi most common?
Pálmi is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Pálmi?
In Iceland, the national register counted 262 people named Pálmi in 2026, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Pálmi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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