Verdi

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Turkish: third-person singular indicative simple past of vermek

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

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

Verdi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 144K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 51K
  • ARArgentina1 in 67K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,316 people, 2010

Sources
249 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Italian surname, plural form used as family designation; from verde 'green'

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

How Verdi is read(measured from records)

Verdi 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.

  • English35%

    Giuseppe, Italian composer

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Spanish26%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Verdi in Spanish.

  • Turkish15%

    third-person singular indicative simple past of vermek

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

  • Portuguese9.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Verdi in Portuguese.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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

Verdi 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 Verdi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,3161 in 144K2.3KVerdi249
BR Brazil1,8011 in 118K1.8K—4
AR Argentina6741 in 67K674—1
ES Spain1101 in 455K110Verdi10
UY Uruguay661 in 51K66——
CH Switzerland221 in 382K22—4

2,316 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)

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

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Verdì

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Italy

    Also written Vërdî, Vërdi, Vėŕďï, Vérdí, Vêrdï

  • Indonesian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, United States, Italy

    Also written Vérdi

50 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)

Verdi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Italian surname, plural form used as family designation; from verde 'green'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Italian, forma plural de Verde

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Azerbaijani, third-person singular past simple of vermək

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

  • In French, past participle of verdir

    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)

1400160018002000Giovanni Maria Verdi, b. 1574Giuseppe Verdi, b. 1813Alberto Verdi, b. 1888Frank Verdi, b. 1926Nilüfer Verdi, b. 1956Luigi Verdi, b. 1958Alessandro Verdi, b. 1960Simone Verdi, b. 1992

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 Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 39 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Verdi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.3K#13,195
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.1K#13,229
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.9K#14,695
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.8K#5,390
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—674—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—110#25,767
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—110#25,650
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—66—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202422#34,100
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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

Where does the name Verdi come from?
Italian surname, plural form used as family designation; from verde 'green' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Verdi?
A machine transcription gives /ˈvɛɹdi/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Verdi mean?
In Turkish, third-person singular indicative simple past of vermek
In which country does Verdi have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Verdi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled verdi.
Where is Verdi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Verdi is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Verdi?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,316 people named Verdi in 2010, about 1 in 144 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, “Verdi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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