Mercuri
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do nome lat. Mercurius; o sobrenome se define como forma no genitivo Mercurii
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/meɾkuɾi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mercuri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 31K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 607K
- ITItaly≈1 in 11K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
do nome lat. Mercurius; o sobrenome se define como forma no genitivo Mercurii
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mercuri 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Mercuri | 34 |
| AR Argentina | 1,452 | 1 in 31K | 1.5K | Mercuri | 56 |
| US United States | 1,041 | 1 in 320K | 1K | Mercuri | 54 |
| FR France | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 152K | 58 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 349 | 1 in 607K | 349 | Mercuri | 55 |
| CA Canada | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Mercuri | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 194 | 1 in 43K | 194 | Mercuri | 7 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Mercuri 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, Variante di Mercurio
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Latin, vocative singular of Mercurius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Corsican, Wednesday
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)
- Paolo Mercurib. 1804ITItalian engraver (1804–1884)
- Agostino Mercurib. 1839ITItalian music composer (1839-1892)
- Lamberto Mercurib. 1923ITItalian contemporary historian (1923-2009)
- Mariano Mercurib. 1928ITItalian scenographer (1928-2019)
- Franco Mercurib. 1930ITItalian screenwriter (1930–1985)
- Patrizio Mercurib. 1937ITpainter (1937-)
- Cattarina Mercurib. 1960FRFrench journalist (1960-2016)
- Anna Maria Mercurib. 1961ITresearcher
- Alessandro Mercurib. 1973FRFrench-Italian writer and director
- Luca Mercurib. 1980ITItalian archaeologist (1980-)
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,159 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 777 | #28,824 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 733 | #33,463 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 349 | #23,325 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 194 | #6,421 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 72 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 31 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Mercuri mean, and where does it come from?
- do nome lat. Mercurius; o sobrenome se define como forma no genitivo Mercurii Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Mercuri?
- A machine transcription gives /meɾkuɾi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Mercuri have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Mercuri in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mercuri.
- How common is the name Mercuri?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,452 people named Mercuri, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mercuriThe 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, “Mercuri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.