Lupi

surname · Latin script

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

Lupi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: forma plural de Lupo.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 58K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 199K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 8.8K

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)

≈7,100 people, est.

Sources
62 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

forma plural de Lupo

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lupi 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 Lupi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈7,100 est.≈1 in 8.8KlistedLupi33
BR Brazil1,0621 in 199K1.1KLupi62
AR Argentina7841 in 58K784Lupi57
US United States6991 in 476K707Lupi52
FR France≈490 est.≈1 in 140K52—1
CH Switzerland1901 in 44K190Lupi8
PT Portugal≈180 est.≈1 in 57K—Lupi27
UY Uruguay1041 in 33K104Lupi9

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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

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

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lüpi, Lupī, Luepi

  • Croatian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Luppi, Лупи

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lupí

42 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)

Lupi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Romanian, indefinite plural of lup (“wolf”)

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

  • In dgc, hem, pleats (of a dress); to make a hem or pleats on a dress

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • genitive of Lupus used when naming stars, such as α Lupi.

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

  • In mnb, to fold (as dry laundry)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Filipino, folding (of something)

    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)

1400160018002000Didier Lupi Second, b. 1501Johannes Lupi, b. 1506Miguel Ângelo Lupi, b. 1826Ignazio Lupi, b. 1867Roberto Lupi, b. 1908Roldano Lupi, b. 1909Renato Lupi, b. 1920Dov Lupi, b. 1948Maurizio Lupi, b. 1959Daniel Lupi, b. 1961

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Lupi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#8,785
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—784—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020707#34,525
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010699#32,834
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000639#33,653
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024190#6,560
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—104—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197161—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195159—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193155—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196154—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198153—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Lupi mean, and where does it come from?
forma plural de Lupo Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
In which country does Lupi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Lupi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lupi.
How common is the name Lupi?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,062 people named Lupi, about 1 in 199 thousand residents.

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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, “Lupi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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