Imperio

org · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of império

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

Imperio is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
124 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Latin imperium ‘command, government, empire’.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

How Imperio is read(measured from records)

Imperio is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Portuguese90%

    Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of império.

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

  • Spanish8.2%

    Latin imperium ‘command, government, empire’.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

    empire

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Imperio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Imperio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—305Imperio124
BR Brazil—1.1K—3
AR Argentina—76——
ES Spain—39—2
UY Uruguay—22——

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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Imperio is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Império

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)

Imperio is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, forma arcaica de Impero

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Gobierno, mando

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Latin, dative/ablative singular of imperium

    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)

1960198020002020Imperio Zammataro, b. 1963Olimpia Imperio, b. 1965Giulia Imperio, b. 2001

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 21 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Imperio
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#8,814
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020305#69,365
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010265#73,215
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000236#75,938
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—76—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—22—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

Where does the name Imperio come from?
Latin imperium ‘command, government, empire’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
What does the name Imperio mean?
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of império.
In which country does Imperio have the most bearers?
Imperio is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled imperio.

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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Imperio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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