Civil
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Du surnom civil, « aimable, poli »
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Civil is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country.
- HTHaiti≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 43K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
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.
- Haiti (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Çivil in TR Türkiye.
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)
Du surnom civil, « aimable, poli ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Civil 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HT Haiti | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | listed | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Çivil | 32 |
| US United States | 970 | 1 in 343K | 1.2K | — | 19 |
| FR France | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 228K | 53 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 137 | 1 in 365K | 137 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 89 | 1 in 63K | 89 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; the ht-potomitan-names register. 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)
Civil 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 Swedish, civil, civilian; having to do with people and organizations outside military or police, sometimes also outside religion or team-based activities, such as a professional sports team
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, civilian (not related to the military, police or other governmental professions)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, civil; civilian (not relating to the military or clergy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Interlingua, civil, civilian (not associated with the armed forces)
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)
- Josep Civil i Castellvíb. 1876ESSpanish composer
- Francesc Civil i Castellvíb. 1895ESSpanish musicologist, writer and composer (1895-1990)
- Miguel Civilb. 1926ESSpanish Assyriologist & Sumerologist (1926-2019)
- Alan Civilb. 1929GBBritish musician (1929–1989)
- Leandro Civilb. 1948CUCuban middle-distance runner
- Ferran Civil Arnabatb. 1949ESSpanish politician
- Dany Dannb. 1988FRnot in their usual nameFrench breakdancer
- François Civilb. 1990FRFrench actor
- Marta CivilUSresearcher
- Gabrielle CivilUSAmerican Visual Artist
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,095 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 970 | #25,486 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 594 | #35,757 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 137 | #21,970 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 137 | #21,936 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 89 | #13,909 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 25 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 14 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Civil mean, and where does it come from?
- Du surnom civil, « aimable, poli ». Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- In which country does Civil have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Civil in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Civil?
- In the United States, the national register counted 970 people named Civil in 2010, about 1 in 343 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Civil?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/civilThe 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, “Civil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.