Palèrmo
surname · Latin script
Palèrmo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Palermo. Palèrmo is also written Παλέρμο in Greek.
- UYUruguay1 in 2K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.3K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 352 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Palèrmo in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Palermo in US United States, PH Philippines, IT Italy 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)Borrowed from Italian Palermo.
Cited for this meaning 3
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Palèrmo is found
(measured from records)Palèrmo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | listed | Palermo | 73 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Palermo | 52 |
| US United States | — | 8,165 | 1 in 41K | 8.2K | Palermo | 352 |
| AR Argentina | — | 4,277 | 1 in 11K | 4.3K | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,242 | 1 in 50K | 4.2K | — | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,706 | 1 in 2K | 1.7K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 483 | 1 in 17K | 483 | Palermo | 14 |
| JM Jamaica | #947 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Palermo | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Palèrmo mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian Palermo. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Palèrmo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Palèrmo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palermo. After it come Philippines, United States, Argentina and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Palèrmo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Palèrmo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Palèrmo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,165 people named Palèrmo in 2010, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Palèrmo compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Palèrmo is the 947th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Palèrmo?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pal%C3%A8rmoThe 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, “Palèrmo” — the 947th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.