Palmiro
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the vocabulary word palmiere ‘pilgrim’ (specifically, one who had brought back a palm from the Holy Land)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Palmiro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 207K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 465K
- ITItaly≈1 in 62K
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
- 37 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the vocabulary word palmiere ‘pilgrim’ (specifically, one who had brought back a palm from the Holy Land).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Palmiro 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 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 1 | Palmiro | 21 |
| BR Brazil | 455 | 1 in 465K | 731 | Palmiro | 37 |
| AR Argentina | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 207K | 11 | Palmiro | 26 |
| AO Angola | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Palmiro | 6 |
| PE Peru | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 311K | — | Palmiro | 18 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Palmiro | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 18 | 1 in 188K | 18 | Palmiro | 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE Uruguay — Nombres 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Palmiro is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, adaptação ital. de Palmiere
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Pellegrino in Terra Santa
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Italian: name derived in the Middle Ages from the vocabulary word palmiere palmer, pilgrim who had visited the Holy Land (from Latin palm rius , a derivative of palma palm). The name has been altered by association with the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria. In modern times it is sometimes given to boys born on Palm Sunday.
as a word
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)
- Palmerio Grassob. 1600ITnot in their usual nameItalian sculptor and carver
- Palmiro Premolib. 1856ITpubblicista journalist, lexicographer, encyclopédistes (1856-1917)
- Palmiro Togliattib. 1893ITformer leader of the Italian Communist Party (1893–1964)
- Palmiro Luigi Pastorellib. 1898ITItalian association football player (1898-1978)
- Palmiro Foresib. 1900ITItalian politician (1900–1980)
- Palmiro Serafinib. 1945ITItalian cross-country skier
- Palmiro Ucchiellib. 1950ITItalian politician
- Palmiro Masciarellib. 1953ITItalian cyclist
- Palmiro Notiziab. 1980ITItalian assyriologist (born 1980)
- Palmiro Di Diob. 1985ITItalian footballer
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 705 | #12,526 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 11 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Palmiro mean, and where does it come from?
- From the vocabulary word palmiere ‘pilgrim’ (specifically, one who had brought back a palm from the Holy Land). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Palmiro a male or female name?
- Palmiro is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Palmiro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Palmiro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled palmiro.
- How common is the name Palmiro?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 455 people named Palmiro in 2022, about 1 in 465 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Palmiro?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palmiroThe 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, “Palmiro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.