Monopoli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a place called Monopoh, from Greek monepolis ‘single town’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mənɒpəli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Monopoli is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
habitational name from a place called Monopoh, from Greek monepolis ‘single town’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Monopoli counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 287 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 205 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 50 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 30 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Monopoli is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Lieluzņēmumu apvienības, kas kontrolē lielu daļu produkcijas ražošanas un realizācijas tirgu, lai iegūtu monopolpeļņu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Itālijā ("Monopoli"), Apūlijas reģiona Bari provincē, 48400 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Natale Monopolib. 1975ITItalian volleyball player
- Luigi Monopolib. 1992ITItalian footballer
- Valerio MonopoliITItalian graphic designer and type designer based in Barcelona
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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 287 | #72,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 287 | #68,547 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 274 | #67,317 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 205 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 50 | #18,641 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #63,950 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #87,925 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Monopoli mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a place called Monopoh, from Greek monepolis ‘single town’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Monopoli?
- A machine transcription gives /mənɒpəli/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Monopoli have the most bearers?
- Monopoli is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Monopoli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monopoliThe 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, “Monopoli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.