Trápani
surname · Latin script
Trápani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Latin Drepanum, Drepanon, Ancient Greek Δρέπανον (Drépanon, “sickle”), a reference to the curving shape of its harbor.
- ARArgentina1 in 76K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 129K
- UYUruguay1 in 41K
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)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
2,586 people, 2010
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 Trapani in AR Argentina, IT Italy, US United States and 4 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)
Ultimately from Latin Drepanum, Drepanon, Ancient Greek Δρέπανον (Drépanon, “sickle”), a reference to the curving shape of its harbor.
Sources 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trápani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,586 | 1 in 129K | 2.6K | Trapani | 138 |
| AR Argentina | — | 602 | 1 in 76K | 602 | Trapani | 47 |
| BE Belgium | — | 134 | 1 in 87K | 134 | Trapani | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 116 | 1 in 1.8M | 116 | Trapani | 30 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 83 | 1 in 41K | 83 | Trapani | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 51 | 1 in 165K | 51 | Trapani | 10 |
| IT Italy | #803 | — | — | listed | Trapani | 113 |
2,586 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trápani mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Latin Drepanum, Drepanon, Ancient Greek Δρέπανον (Drépanon, “sickle”), a reference to the curving shape of its harbor. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Trápani have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Trápani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trapani.
- Where is Trápani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Trápani is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 41 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Trápani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,586 people named Trápani in 2010, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
- How common is Trápani compared with other names?
- In Italy, Trápani is the 803rd most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tr%C3%A1paniThe 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, “Trápani” — the 803rd most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.