Pompei

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Pompei is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English42%

  commune, Italy

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Spanish21%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Pompei in Spanish.

• Italian12%

  Pompeii (the ancient city)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  do nome latino Pompeius; também natural de Pompei

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• Portuguese9.1%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Pompei in Portuguese.

• French5.5%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Pompei in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Pompei is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Italy

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Pompeia, Pompéia, Pompéi, Pompeyá

• French surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Belgium

  Also written Pompéi, Pompeï, Pompéï

• Russian surname12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Помпей, Pompey, Pompeii, Pompej, Помпеи

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Pompei 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 Latin, place-name from the gens name Pompeius

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In Russian, var of Pompii.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In roa-brg, firefighter

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Alessandro Pompeib. 1705ITItalian architect (1705-1772)
• Girolamo Pompeib. 1731ITItalian poet
• Mario Pompeib. 1903ITItalian writer (1903–1958)
• Jean Pompeib. 1909FRFrench official (1909–1972)
• Alfonso Pompeib. 1924ITCatholic theologian (1924-2009)
• Ennio Pompeib. 1924ITItalian politician (1924-2005)
• Stefano Pompeib. 1934ITItalian urban planner and architect (1934-2005)
• Roberto Pompeib. 1970ARArgentine footballer and manager
• Giovanni Pompeib. 1980ITItalian footballer (1980-2018)
• Francesco PompeiUSExergen Corporation

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Pompei mean, and where does it come from?

Pompeii (the ancient city) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Pompei?

A machine transcription gives /pɒmpeɪ/ (IPA) for English.

In which country does Pompei have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Pompei in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pompei.

How common is the name Pompei?

In the United States, the national register counted 563 people named Pompei in 2010, about 1 in 591 thousand residents.