Povéda
surname · Latin script
Povéda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: lived near a grove of poplars, OSp. poveda, a collective oi povo, pobo (white) poplar (LL popus, a back-formation from class. L, populus, taken as a dim.).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 4.6K
- UYUruguay1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
10,797 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Poveda in ES Spain, US United States.
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)lived near a grove of poplars, OSp. poveda, a collective oi povo, pobo (white) poplar (LL popus, a back-formation from class. L, populus, taken as a dim.). There are also sev¬ eral places named with this word, and they may have con¬ tributed to the surname. Poverelli see Power
Cited for this meaning 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Povéda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 10,797 | 1 in 4.6K | 11K | Poveda | 31 |
| CR Costa Rica | 3,255 | 1 in 1.6K | 3.3K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 923 | 1 in 49K | 923 | — | — |
| US United States | 901 | 1 in 369K | 1K | Poveda | 23 |
| BR Brazil | 578 | 1 in 366K | 578 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 268 | 1 in 13K | 268 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | — | — |
10,797 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Régine Povédab. 1957FRFrench politician
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
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.
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 Povéda mean, and where does it come from?
- lived near a grove of poplars, OSp. poveda, a collective oi povo, pobo (white) poplar (LL popus, a back-formation from class. L, populus, taken as a dim.). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Povéda have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Povéda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poveda.
- Where is Povéda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Povéda is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Povéda?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10,797 people named Povéda, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pov%C3%A9daThe 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, “Povéda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.