Napoles
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from the Italian city of Naples (see Napoli)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/napolɛs/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Napoles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 15K
- MXMexico≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from the Italian city of Naples (see Napoli).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Napoles 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Napoles | 42 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 161 | Napoles | 96 |
| US United States | — | 2,784 | 1 in 119K | 2.8K | Napoles | 185 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | Napoles | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 565 | 1 in 375K | 565 | — | — |
| CU Cuba | #324 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Napoles | 23 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Napoles | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 231 | 1 in 15K | 231 | — | 5 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alfonso Nápoles Gándarab. 1897MXMexican mathematician
- José Nápolesb. 1940CUCuban-Mexican boxer (1940-2019)
- Gustavo Napolesb. 1973MXMexican footballer
- Rey Escorpiónb. 1979MXnot in their usual nameMexican profesional wrestler
- Oleiny Linares Napolesb. 1983CUCuban chess player
- Eduardo Nápolesb. 1997Cuban athletics competitor (born 1997)
- Cristian Nápolesb. 1998CUCuban athletics competitor
- Desmond is Amazingb. 2007USnot in their usual namechild drag performer
- Courtney NapolesUSresearcher, natural language processing
- Jesús Romero NápolesMXMexican entomologist
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,870 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,335 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,931 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 565 | #15,246 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 231 | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 161 | #1,359 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Napoles mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from the Italian city of Naples (see Napoli). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Napoles?
- In Spanish /napolɛs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Napoles have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named Napoles in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled napoles.
- How common is the name Napoles?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,784 people named Napoles in 2010, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.
- How common is Napoles compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Napoles is the 324th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/napolesThe 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, “Napoles” — the 324th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.