Impey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Impey’, various places in England (‘enclosure of young trees’)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪmpi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Impey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 11Kas Impi(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 189Kas Impi
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Impey itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
491 named Impi
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Impi
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Импи in RU Russia.
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)
‘person from Impey’, various places in England (‘enclosure of young trees’)
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Impey 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 491as Impi | 1 in 11K | 9.3K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 54as Impi | 1 in 189K | 54 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Импи | 8 |
| US United States | — | — | 188 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | — | 12 | — | — |
491 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Impey 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 English, ‘dweller near a hedge or enclosure made of saplings, or an enclosure for young trees’; first attested John atte Imphage 1327 SRSx, John de Impey 1327 SRSf
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, places named with the OE elements imp young tree, sapling + (ge)hceg or haga enclosure (see Hay i and Haig). Var.: Impy. name of uncertain etymology, but paralleled on the Conti¬ nent. Var.: Inge. Patr. (from 1): Ings.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, minor places named with the OE elements imp young tree, sapling + (ge)hreg or haga enclosure (see Hay i and Haig). Var.: Itnpy. Imray see Amery Ims see Imm Hies see Giles, Isles
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname from Old English.
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)
- Elijah Impeyb. 1732GBBritish judge (1732-1809)
- Elijah Barwell Impeyb. 1780GBEnglish poet
- Eugene Clutterbuck Impeyb. 1830FRBritish army officer and photographer
- Rose Impeyb. 1947GBBritish writer
- John Impeyb. 1954GBEnglish association football player and manager
- Chris Impeyb. 1956GBBritish astronomer
- Edward Impeyb. 1962GBBritish historian, archaeologist, and museum curator
- Andy Impeyb. 1971GBEnglish footballer (born 1971)
- Daryl Impeyb. 1984ZASouth African racing cyclist
- John ImpeyBritish legal writer
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 188 | #102,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 182 | #99,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 173 | #97,384 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Impey mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Impey’, various places in England (‘enclosure of young trees’) Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Impey?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪmpi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Impey have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 491 people named Impi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Impey most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Impey itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people named Impi.
- How common is the name Impey?
- In Finland, the national register counted 491 people named Impi, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/impeyThe 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, “Impey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.