Annibale
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Annibale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Bestowed in honour of the Carthaginian general Hannibal (247-182 Bc}, who led an army from Spain into Italy and wreaked havoc on the Romans for 15 years before eventually being defeated by.
- BEBelgium1 in 308K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
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
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 308K (inferred from the name graph)
182 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Bestowed in honour of the Carthaginian general Hannibal (247-182 Bc}, who led an army from Spain into Italy and wreaked havoc on the Romans for 15 years before eventually being defeated by
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Annibale 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 | 182 | 1 in 1.8M | 182 | Annibale | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 57 | 1 in 3.7M | 57 | Annibale | 27 |
| BE Belgium | 38 | 1 in 308K | 38 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | Annibale | 18 |
| PT Portugal | — | — | — | Annibale | 5 |
182 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Annibale is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Hannibal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Tradizionalmente dal punico ʿanī-baal; qui anche ricondotto a una deformazione del germanico Annibaldo (radici hag/hagai + walt, 'potente').
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, do fenício hann-i-ba'al; patronímico ligado ao nome Annibale
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Grazia del Dio Baal
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Miguel Ángel D'Annibaleb. 1959ARArgentinian priest (1959-2020)
- Brooke Annibaleb. 1987USsinger-songwriter
- Bruno AnnibaleITresearcher
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 182 | #99,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 178 | #106,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 174 | #96,918 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 57 | #95,634 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 38 | #31,540 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Annibale mean, and where does it come from?
- Bestowed in honour of the Carthaginian general Hannibal (247-182 Bc}, who led an army from Spain into Italy and wreaked havoc on the Romans for 15 years before eventually being defeated by Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Annibale have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 182 people named Annibale, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled annibale.
- Where is Annibale most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Annibale is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 308 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Annibale?
- In the United States, the national register counted 182 people named Annibale in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/annibaleThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Annibale”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.