Pompey

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Pompejus in DE Germany.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Pompey is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name1.7K records spelled Pompey3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, Mexico, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Pompeyo

• French surname1.3K records spelled Pompey5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Haiti

  Also written Pompee, Pompée, Pompeé

• Portuguese surname197 records spelled Pompey11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Portugal, United Kingdom

  Languages: Portuguese, English, German

  Also written Pompeu, Pompéu, Pompêu, Pompeius, Pompeú

• Indonesian surname68 records spelled Pompey3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Pompeius

45 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●

Pompey 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 English, Roman statesman

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, son of Pompey

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In French, Pompey (a city in Meurthe-et-Moselle department, France)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Heinrich Pompeyb. 1936DEGerman psychologist and theologian
• Dalton Pompeyb. 1992CACanadian baseball player
• Tristan Pompeyb. 1997CAbaseball player
• Adam Pompeyb. 1998NZNew Zealand rugby league footballer
• Corey PompeyUSband director and professor of music

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 33 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pompey?

We estimate roughly 3.2 thousand people bear Pompey (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Pompey have the most bearers?

We estimate about 2.5 thousand people bear Pompey in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled pompey.

Where is Pompey most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pompey is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 304 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Pompey compared with other names?

In St. Vincent & Grenadines, Pompey is the 31st most common surname of 1,182 surnames recorded there.

What does the name Pompey mean?

Recorded meaning: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic.