Mopp

surname · Latin script

Meaning: variant of Mobb/Mabb, pet-names for Mabel; first attested Henry Moppe 1243 AssDu

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

Mopp is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 103K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 4.9M

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.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈550 people, est.

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

variant of Mobb/Mabb, pet-names for Mabel; first attested Henry Moppe 1243 AssDu

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mopp 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 Mopp is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈550 est.≈1 in 103K—Mopp15
DE Germany≈16 est.≈1 in 4.9M—Mopp6
US United States≈7 est.≈1 in 47M—Mopp17
GY Guyana11 in 750K1—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: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Mopp is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Möpp

14 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)

Mopp 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 English, Acronym of Mustargen (chlormethine), oncovin, procarbazine, prednisone (“a chemotherapy regimen for treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma”).

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Mopp
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#624

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mopp mean, and where does it come from?
variant of Mobb/Mabb, pet-names for Mabel; first attested Henry Moppe 1243 AssDu Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
In which country does Mopp have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 547 people named Mopp in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mopp.
How common is the name Mopp?
In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Mopp in 2025, about 1 in 750 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, “Mopp”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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