Palérmo
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Palérmo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 41K
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)
≈12,000 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
Spellings & scripts
(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)vARIANTI: Palérmi. 7 Diffuso nel Sud nella forma Palermo (e frequente spec. in Sicilia e a Palermo stessa), raro e sporadico nel Centro- Nord in quella Palermi, é formato dal toponimo Palermo.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Palérmo 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 | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | listed | Palermo | 73 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | 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); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Palérmo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Palérmo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palermo.
- Where is Palérmo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Palérmo 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 Palérmo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,165 people named Palérmo in 2010, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Palérmo compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Palérmo is the 947th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pal%C3%A9rmoThe 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, “Palérmo” — the 947th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.