Xerri
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ksɹɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Xerri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Sicilian scerri, plural of scerra, variant of sciarra, from Arabic شِرَّة (širra).
- ESSpain1 in 1M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M
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)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
117 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Sicilianscerri(measured from records)
- Arabicشِرَّةširra(measured from records)
Borrowed from Sicilian scerri, plural of scerra, variant of sciarra, from Arabic شِرَّة (širra).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Xerri 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 117 | 1 in 2.8M | 117 | Xerri | 10 |
| ES Spain | 48 | 1 in 1M | 48 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | 61 | Xerri | 140 |
| MT Malta | — | — | — | Xerri | 8 |
117 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Xerri 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.
In Catalan, inflection of xerrar:
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)
- Giuseppe Bartolomeo Xerrib. 1748MTRoman Catholic clergyman
- Raymond Xerrib. 1969USMaltese diplomat
- Rosann Xerrib. 1980MTMaltese association football player
- Tristan Xerrib. 1999AUAustralian rules footballer
- Bronson Xerrib. 2000AUAustralian rugby league footballer
- Joseph XerriMT18th century Maltese philosopher
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 117 | #142,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 108 | #150,935 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 61 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 48 | #46,099 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 48 | #45,681 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 8 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 7 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Xerri mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Sicilian scerri, plural of scerra, variant of sciarra, from Arabic شِرَّة (širra). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Xerri?
- A machine transcription gives /ksɹɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Xerri have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 117 people named Xerri, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled xerri.
- Where is Xerri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Xerri is densest in Spain — about 1 in 1.0 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Xerri?
- In the United States, the national register counted 117 people named Xerri in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/xerriThe 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, “Xerri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.