Napoli
loc · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from the Campanian city of Naples, now the third largest city in Italy
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈna.po.li/(recorded in a dictionary) Italian · from Wiktionary
Napoli is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Italy.
- GMGambia
- GHGhana
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 342 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from the Campanian city of Naples, now the third largest city in Italy. The place name, Italian Napoli, Latin Neapolis, is from Greek nea ‘new’ + polis ‘city’. It was an ancient Greek colony taken over by the Romans in the 4th century bc.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Napoli 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 | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | listed | Napoli | 73 |
| US United States | — | 5.1K | Napoli | 342 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 128 | Napoli | 74 |
| IN India | — | — | Napoli | 6 |
| GM Gambia | — | — | Napoli | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 402 | Napoli | 24 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2.3K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2.2K | — | 4 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)Napoli 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, of Naples (It. Napoli, L Neapolis, from Gk nea new + polis city; it was an ancient Gk colony taken over by the Romans in the 4th cent. bc). Vars.: di Napoli; Napoletano, Napolitano. Napravnxk Czech: status name for a feudal tenant, who held land as of right in return for various duties to his lord, from Czech na on, over + pravo right, entitlement + -nik suffix of agent nouns.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Italian, Naples (a province and capital city of Campania, Italy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, pERIVATI: Napoletano, Napolitano. / Diffuso nel Sud con altissima frequenza, é formato dal toponimo Napoli e dall’etnico Napoletano o Napolitano.
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Italian, oriundo da cidade de Napoli; do gr. Neápolis, 'cidade nova'
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, Synonym of Naples: a city and province in Campania, in southwestern Italy.
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)- Tommaso Maria Napolib. 1659ITItalian architect
- Olga Napolib. 1903ITItalian painter (1903-1955)
- Jacopo Napolib. 1911ITItalian composer (1911–1994)
- Vito Napolib. 1931ITItalian politician and journalist (1931–2004)
- Donna Jo Napolib. 1948USAmerican children's writer and linguist
- Marc di Napolib. 1953FRFrench actor
- Nicolò Napolib. 1962ITfootballer, football manager
- Gennaro Di Napolib. 1968ITathletics competitor
- Arturo Di Napolib. 1974ITItalian footballer
- Mike Napolib. 1981USAmerican baseball 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.1K | #6,608 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5K | #6,329 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.8K | #6,705 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.2K | #4,541 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 402 | #3,282 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 128 | #28,353 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- Where does the name Napoli come from?
- habitational name from the Campanian city of Naples, now the third largest city in Italy. The place name, Italian Napoli, Latin Neapolis, is from Greek nea ‘new’ + polis ‘city’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Napoli?
- In Italian /ˈna.po.li/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Napoli mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name from the Campanian city of Naples, now the third largest city in Italy.
- In which country does Napoli have the most bearers?
- Napoli is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled napoli.
What do you want to know about Napoli?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/napoliThe 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, “Napoli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.