Apeles
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɪpəɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Apeles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 6.6M(measured from records)
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.6M (inferred from the name graph)
32 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Apeles 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 32 | 1 in 6.6M | 32 | Apeles | 20 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Apeles | 24 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | listed | Apeles | 5 |
| SV El Salvador | — | — | — | Apeles | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | Apeles | 11 |
32 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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). 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)
Apeles is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, second-person singular present subjunctive of apelar
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)
- Apellesb. 50not in their usual nameancient Greek physician
- Apellesb. 150not in their usual namegnostic christian thinker
- Apellesb. 250GRnot in their usual nameMacedonian official
- Apellesb. 370TRnot in their usual name4th century BC Greek painter
- Apeles Porto-Alegreb. 1850BRBrazilian journalist (1850-1917)
- Apel·les Mestres i Oñósb. 1854ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer, poet and illustrator (1854–1936)
- Apel·les Fenosab. 1899ESnot in their usual nameSpanish sculptor (1899-1988)
- José-Apeles Santolaria de Puey y Cruellsb. 1966EStelevision conductor, journalist, writer, priest, lawyer and detective
- Apellesnot in their usual nameancient Greek philosopher, student of Epicurus
- Apelles of Ascalonnot in their usual namecounselor and companion of emperor Caligula
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #142,633 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Apeles?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪpəɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Apeles have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 32 people named Apeles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled apeles.
- Where is Apeles most common?
- Apeles is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.6 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Apeles?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 32 people named Apeles, about 1 in 6.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Apeles?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/apelesThe 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, “Apeles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.