Pompeo

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: first-person singular present indicative of pompear

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈpoʊmpioʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pompeo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 54K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 156K
  • CUCuba≈1 in 35K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

3,907 people

Sources
94 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)

Cuba, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From the Roman family name Pompeius. Porfirio d From the Greek name Porphyrios ‘purple’. APPENDIX: ITALIAN R APPENDIX: ITALIAN

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Pompeo is read(measured from records)

Pompeo is one spelling over 4 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.

  • English47%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Pompeo in English.

  • Portuguese28%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Pompeo in Portuguese.

  • Spanish12%

    first-person singular present indicative of pompear

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Italian5.1%

    Dal numerale osco pompe = "cinque"; nome di un santo martire (10 aprile).

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

    dal latino Pompeius, nome gentilizio romano.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

    Dal nunierale ~ a b i n opompe = cinque. Un Santo martire, 10 aprik?. L'ogn. Pouipei, Pornpeati (veneti).

    as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

    forma italiana de Pompeius

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pompeo 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.

Where Pompeo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil3,9071 in 54K3.9KPompeo94
IT Italy≈1,700 est.≈1 in 36K5Pompeo31
US United States7461 in 446K782Pompeo85
CU Cuba≈320 est.≈1 in 35K—Pompeo3
AR Argentina2921 in 156K292Pompeo37
CH Switzerland521 in 162K52Pompeo4

3,907 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pompeo is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Pompêo

  • Italian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Canada, Spain

    Also written Pòmpèo, Pòmpeò, Pompêo, Pompéo

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Italy

    Also written Pompéo, Pompêo

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pompéo, Pompêo

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Pompêo, Pompéo

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Egypt

    Also written Pompêo

44 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pompeo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • From the Roman family name Pompeius. Porfirio d From the Greek name Porphyrios ‘purple’. APPENDIX: ITALIAN R APPENDIX: ITALIAN

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

1850190019502000Tomás Pompeu de Sousa Brasil, b. 1852Tomás Pompeu de Sousa Brasil, b. 1879João José Pompeo, b. 1932Ornella Pompeo Faracovi, b. 1946Mike Pompeo, b. 1963Lorenzo Pompeo, b. 1968Ellen Pompeo, b. 1969Isadora Pompeo, b. 1999

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)

FormalDear Mr Pompeo,
InformalHi Pompeo,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 33 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Pompeo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.9K#2,744
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020782#31,685
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010746#31,107
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000646#33,333
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—292—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202452#18,109
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru 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
  • 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

Where does the name Pompeo come from?
From the Roman family name Pompeius. Porfirio d From the Greek name Porphyrios ‘purple’. APPENDIX: ITALIAN R APPENDIX: ITALIAN Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
How do you pronounce Pompeo?
A machine transcription gives /ˈpoʊmpioʊ/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Pompeo mean?
In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of pompear
In which country does Pompeo have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Pompeo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pompeo.
How common is the name Pompeo?
In Brazil, the national register counted 3,907 people named Pompeo, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.

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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, “Pompeo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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