Papanikolau
surname · Latin script
Papanikolau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 280Kas Papanikolaou(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 293Kas Papanikolaou
- SESweden1 in 510Kas Papanikolaou
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Papanikolau itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 280K (inferred from the name graph)
219 named Papanikolaou, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Papanikolaou
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Papanikolau 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 | 219as Papanikolaou | 1 in 1.5M | 255 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 30as Papanikolaou | 1 in 280K | 30 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 21as Papanikolaou | 1 in 1.8M | 13 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 20as Papanikolaou | 1 in 293K | 20 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 20as Papanikolaou | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 19as Papanikolaou | 1 in 617K | 19 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 8as Papanikolaou | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | — |
219 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Papanikolau have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 219 people named Papanikolaou, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Papanikolau most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Papanikolau itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 280 thousand people named Papanikolaou.
- How common is the name Papanikolau?
- In the United States, the national register counted 219 people named Papanikolaou in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/papanikolauThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Papanikolau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.