Papenfuß
surname · Latin script
Meaning: zu -vo(i)t 'Vogt'; vermutlich Berufsname
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Papenfuß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 501Kas Papenfuss
- PLPoland1 in 7.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Papenfuß 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Papenfuss in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 3 more.
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
(measured from records)zu -vo(i)t 'Vogt'; vermutlich Berufsname. Bearer count nicht genannt.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Papenfuß 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Papenfuß | 66 |
| US United States | 664as Papenfuss | 1 in 501K | 666 | Papenfuss | 165 |
| IT Italy | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 875K | — | Papenfuss | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Papenfuss | 7 |
| CU Cuba | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Papenfuss | 1 |
| HN Honduras | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 596K | — | Papenfuss | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Papenfuss | 1 |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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)Papenfuß 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 German, Schreibvariante zu Pape/Paffe; zeigt labiale Plosive/Affrikaten. 717 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #204,039 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Papenfuß mean?
- Recorded meaning: zu -vo(i)t 'Vogt'; vermutlich Berufsname.
- In which country does Papenfuß have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Papenfuß in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled papenfuß.
- How common is the name Papenfuß?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5 people named Papenfuß in 2026, about 1 in 7.7 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/papenfu%C3%9FThe 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, “Papenfuß”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.