Principi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Principe
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɾinsipi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Principi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 92K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 49K
- UYUruguay1 in 103K
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
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma plural de Principe
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Principi 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 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 49K | listed | Principi | 15 |
| AR Argentina | 496 | 1 in 92K | 496 | Principi | 38 |
| US United States | 173 | 1 in 1.9M | 173 | Principi | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | 46 | 1 in 183K | 46 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 33 | 1 in 103K | 33 | Principi | 5 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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)
Principi 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, Variante di Principe
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Latin, dative singular of prī̆nceps
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, beginning, start
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)
- Paolo Principib. 1884ITItalian geologist and paleontologist (1884-1963)
- Maria Matilde Principib. 1915ITItalian entomologist and academic (1915-2017)
- Anthony Principib. 1944US4th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- Paolo Principib. 1951ITItalian applied physicist (born 1951)
- Lorenzo Principib. 1986ITItalian art historian (born 1986)
- Paolo Principib. 1989ITItalian artistic gymnast
- Azzurra Principib. 1992ITItalian association football player
- Mariella Principib. 2000ITItalian historian
- Emanuele Principib. 2000ITresearcher
- Andrea PrincipiITItalian sociologist
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 496 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 173 | #103,655 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 165 | #113,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 146 | #111,740 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 46 | #19,892 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 33 | — |
| 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 3
- 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
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 Principi mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Principe Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Principi?
- A machine transcription gives /pɾinsipi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Principi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Principi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled principi.
- How common is the name Principi?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 496 people named Principi, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Principi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/principiThe 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, “Principi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.