Stabile
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Abstract sculpture or structure of wire, sheet metal, etc
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈsteɪbɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stabile is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 116K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 4K
- ITItaly≈1 in 9.6K
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)
- Record sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Abstract sculpture or structure of wire, sheet metal, etc.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Stabile is read
(measured from records)Stabile 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.
- English54%
Abstract sculpture or structure of wire, sheet metal, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Stabile in Spanish.
- Portuguese10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Stabile in Portuguese.
- Italian7.6%
stable, steady, regular, settled, permanent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
forma italiana de Stabilis
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Stabile 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 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | listed | Stabile | 59 |
| US United States | 2,880 | 1 in 116K | 2.9K | Stabile | 286 |
| BR Brazil | 1,966 | 1 in 108K | 2K | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 1,183 | 1 in 38K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 852 | 1 in 4K | 852 | — | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Stabile | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Stabile | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)Stabile 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, nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of stabilis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite natural masculine singular of stabil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, definite singular of stabil
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)- Annibale Stabileb. 1535ITItalian composer
- Mariano Stabileb. 1806ITItalian politician (1806–1863)
- Mariano Stabileb. 1888ITItalian opera singer (1888-1968)
- Dick Stabileb. 1909USAmerican jazz saxophonist and bandleader (1909–1980)
- Dolly Dawnb. 1916USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (1916-2002)
- Giorgio Stabileb. 1939ITItalian philosopher and science historian (1939-2022)
- Alfonso C. Stabileb. 1947USAmerican politician
- Salvatore Stabileb. 1974USAmerican film director
- Eliana Stabileb. 1993ARArgentine association football player
- Giulia Stabileb. 2002ITItalian dancer and television presenter
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #11,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,323 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,285 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #4,942 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 852 | — |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Stabile mean, and where does it come from?
- Abstract sculpture or structure of wire, sheet metal, etc. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Stabile?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsteɪbɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stabile have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Stabile in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stabile.
- Where is Stabile most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stabile is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.0 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stabile?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,880 people named Stabile in 2010, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stabileThe 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, “Stabile”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.