Given name & surname
Napoléon
Napoléon is a masculine given name from Italian. It is used in French.
Original ItalianNapoleone
Meaning & origin
Napoléon’s family of names
In French usage, Napoléon shares a linguistic root with the Walloon form Napoleyon. In French usage, Napoléon has a conventional equivalent in the English form Napoleon. In French usage, Napoléon was borrowed from the Italian form Napoleone.
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Around the world
Napoléon has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
Italianwhere Napoléon comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Napoléon
- Napoleon IIThe second Emperor of the French (1815)1811–1832
- Napoléon Louis Bonapartemiddle son of Louis I of Holland and Hortense de Beauharnais (1804–1831)
- Louis-Napoléon, Prince ImperialFrench prince (1856–1879)
- Napoléon Henri ReberFrench composer (1807-1880)
- Napoléon-Charles BonapartePrince of France (1802–1807)
- Napoléon, comte DaruFrench politician (1807–1890)
- Napoléon Joseph NeyFrench noble and politician (1803–1857)
- Napoléon PeyratFrench author and historian from Les Bordes-sur-Arize1809–1881
- Napoléon La CéciliaFrench general (1835–1878)
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