Nobile
surname · Latin script
Meaning: aristocratic, noble, titled
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnɑbəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nobile is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 23K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 204K
- LILiechtenstein≈1 in 5.8K
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
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liechtenstein, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
aristocratic, noble, titled
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nobile 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 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | listed | Nobile | 34 |
| CN China | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Nobile | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 1,991 | 1 in 23K | 2K | Nobile | 62 |
| US United States | 1,370 | 1 in 243K | 1.4K | Nobile | 51 |
| BR Brazil | 1,040 | 1 in 204K | 1K | Nobile | 81 |
| UY Uruguay | 317 | 1 in 11K | 317 | Nobile | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | 207 | 1 in 41K | 207 | Nobile | 5 |
| LI Liechtenstein | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 10 | — | — |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames). 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)
Nobile 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, do latim nobilis, nobre, distinto.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Nobili
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of nōbilis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Interlingua, noble, nobleman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Cēli, cildeni; dižciltīgi
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)
- Peter von Nobileb. 1776ATItalian architect and builder (1776-1854)
- Arminio Nobileb. 1838ITItalian astronomer
- Umberto Nobileb. 1885ITItalian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer (1885-1978)
- Luigi Nobileb. 1921ITItalian footballer (1921-2009)
- Alberto Nobileb. 1923ITItalian painter, sculptor and designer (1923-1966)
- Roberto Nobileb. 1947ITItalian actor (1947–2022)
- Salvatore Nobileb. 1964ITItalian footballer and manager
- Matteo Nobileb. 1973ITItalian basketball player (born 1973)
- Carlotta Nobileb. 1988ITItalian violinist and blogger (1988-2013)
- Tommaso Nobileb. 1996ITItalian footballer (born 1996)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #18,857 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,595 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #8,940 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 317 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 207 | #6,085 |
| LI Liechtenstein | Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames) | 2020 | 10 | — |
| 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 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)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Nobile?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɑbəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Nobile mean, and where does it come from?
- aristocratic, noble, titled Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nobile have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Nobile in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nobile.
- How common is the name Nobile?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,991 people named Nobile, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nobileThe 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, “Nobile”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.