Pôpo
surname · Latin script
Pôpo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bat, sleeps in the daytime.
- DMDominica1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 49Kfew records
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 93Kfew records
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 Pôpo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Popo in US United States, MX Mexico, CO Colombia 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)bat, sleeps in the daytime
Cited for this meaning 2
- The African book of names
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pôpo is found
(measured from records)Pôpo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 110K | listed | Popo | 19 |
| CO Colombia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 1 | Popo | 39 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Popo | 7 |
| MX Mexico | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 188K | 9 | Popo | 44 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Popo | 15 |
| US United States | 200 | 1 in 1.7M | 265 | Popo | 112 |
| DM Dominica | 34 | 1 in 2.2K | 34 | — | 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 2020; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pôpo mean, and where does it come from?
- bat, sleeps in the daytime Recorded by The African book of names and Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pôpo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Pôpo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled popo. After it come Colombia, Tanzania, Mexico and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pôpo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pôpo is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 2.2 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pôpo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 200 people named Pôpo in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%B4poThe 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, “Pôpo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.