Napoleone
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Corsican personal name Napoleone, of uncertain origin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəpoʎɪən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Napoleone is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 53K
- UYUruguay1 in 100K
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
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Corsican personal name Napoleone, of uncertain origin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Napoleone 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 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 1 | Napoleone | 28 |
| US United States | 292 | 1 in 1.1M | 307 | Napoleone | 131 |
| FR France | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 370K | 24 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 163 | 1 in 279K | 163 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 102 | 1 in 2.1M | 102 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 70 | 1 in 167K | 70 | Napoleone | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 47 | 1 in 179K | 47 | Napoleone | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | 34 | 1 in 100K | 34 | — | — |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Napoleone 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 Italian, Napoleon (Bonaparte)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Nome toscano; forse da Napo, variante di Lapo (< Iacopo) + Leone. Etimologia alternativa: da Napoli con valore dispregiativo/satirico.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, di origine toponimica; nome storico diffuso per Napoleone.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, dal gr. Neapolítēs, ‘di Napoli’
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, do germ. Nibelung/Nibelunc; depois aproximado popularmente de Napoli e Leone
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Giovanni Napoleoneb. 1850Italian latinist
- Nicodemo Napoleoneb. 1947ITItalian painter and architect (born 1947)
- Giovanni NapoleoneITItalian geophysicist
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 307 | #69,002 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 292 | #67,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 291 | #64,008 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 163 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 102 | #62,416 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 70 | #20,443 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 47 | #19,565 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 15 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Napoleone mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Corsican personal name Napoleone, of uncertain origin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Napoleone?
- A machine transcription gives /nəpoʎɪən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Napoleone have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Napoleone in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled napoleone.
- How common is the name Napoleone?
- In the United States, the national register counted 292 people named Napoleone in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/napoleoneThe 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, “Napoleone”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.