Napoleoni
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Napoleoni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Napoleone, of uncertain origin.
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 68K
- FRFrance≈1 in 380K
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
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Napoleone, of uncertain origin. It has been suggested that it is from the Gmc personal name Nibelung ‘son of Mist, Fog’ (see Nieblich), but in folk etymology it has been associated with the city of Naples (see Napoli) + It. leone lion. Vars.: Napolioni; Nebuloni, Nebulone (Lombardy); Nuvoloni, Nuvolone (Lombardy, Liguria). 446
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Napoleoni 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 | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 68K | listed | Napoleoni | 14 |
| FR France | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 380K | 15 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 158 | 1 in 2.1M | 158 | Napoleoni | 79 |
| CA Canada | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Napoleoni | 14 |
| AR Argentina | 27 | 1 in 1.7M | 27 | — | — |
| AU Australia | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Napoleoni | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | Napoleoni | 2 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 714K | — | Napoleoni | 1 |
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; the xinhua-italian-manual register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
Napoleoni 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 Italian, from the Gmc personal name Nibelung ‘son of Mist, Fog’ (see Nieblich), but in folk etymology it has been associ¬ ated with the city of Naples (see Napoli) + It. leone lion. Vars.: Napolioni; Nebuloni, Nebulone (Lombardy); Nuvoloni, Nuvolone (Lombardy, Liguria).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Italian, forma pl. de Napoleone
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Czech, nominative/vocative plural of Napoleon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative singular of Nāpoleō
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)
- Claudio Napoleonib. 1924ITItalian economist and politician (1924–1988)
- Luigi Napoleonib. 1937ITItalian boxer
- Alfredo Napoleonib. 1937ITItalian association football player
- Loretta Napoleonib. 1955ITItalian journalist and political analyst (born 1955)
- Claudio Napoleonib. 1970CACanadian voice actor
- Stefano Napoleonib. 1986ITItalian association football player
- Simona Napoleonib. 1988CHSwiss association football player
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 158 | #111,426 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 150 | #121,361 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 133 | #120,330 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 28 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 17 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Napoleoni mean, and where does it come from?
- Napoleone, of uncertain origin. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Napoleoni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 915 people named Napoleoni in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled napoleoni.
- How common is the name Napoleoni?
- In the United States, the national register counted 158 people named Napoleoni in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/napoleoniThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Napoleoni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.