Apple
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Either 'person who grows or sells apples' or 'person who lives by an apple orchard'; also a nickname for someone with rosy cheeks, or an anglicization of Apfel/Appel
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Apple is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 48K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 52K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 78K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
6,948 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Applé in DE Germany.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Either 'person who grows or sells apples' or 'person who lives by an apple orchard'; also a nickname for someone with rosy cheeks, or an anglicization of Apfel/Appel.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Apple, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Apple 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 | 6,948 | 1 in 48K | 6.9K | Apple | 373 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 78K | listed | Apple | 93 |
| CA Canada | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 1 | Apple | 61 |
| AU Australia | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 116K | 1 | Apple | 50 |
| DE Germany | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 396K | — | Applé | 37 |
| FI Finland | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 31 | — | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 84 | 1 in 8.9K | 84 | — | 3 |
| IS Iceland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 1 | — | — |
6,948 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Apple 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 English, A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, ngtilu wa, ie. tree-fruit
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Polish, Apple (company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Apple (name of the company Apple Inc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of appel
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)
- Billy Appleb. 1935NZNew Zealand artist (1935–2021)
- Monique Appleb. 1937FRFrench painter (1937-1998)
- Max Appleb. 1941USshort story writer
- Michael W. Appleb. 1942USEducational theorist
- Catherine Appleb. 1963American film editor
- Fiona Appleb. 1977USAmerican musician (born 1977)
- Apple Hongb. 1978MYSingaporean actor and singer
- Erik Appleb. 1979USAmerican martial artist and actor
- Zach Appleb. 1997USAmerican swimmer
- Maxwell AppleUSAmerican actor and voice actor
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 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.9K | #5,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.9K | #4,698 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.8K | #4,999 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 84 | #541 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Apple mean, and where does it come from?
- Either 'person who grows or sells apples' or 'person who lives by an apple orchard'; also a nickname for someone with rosy cheeks, or an anglicization of Apfel/Appel. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Apple have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Apple, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled apple.
- Where is Apple most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Apple is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 8.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Apple?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,948 people named Apple in 2010, about 1 in 48 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, “Apple”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.