Papadópoulos
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Papadópoulos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Παπαδόπουλος (Papadópoulos).
- CYCyprus≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GRGreece≈1 in 1.8K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 19K
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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 270 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Papadopoulos in US United States, AU Australia, DE Germany and 3 more and Παπαδοπουλος in GR Greece.
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)Borrowed from Greek Παπαδόπουλος (Papadópoulos).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Papadópoulos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #32 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 258 | Παπαδοπουλος | 168 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Papadopoulos | 114 |
| US United States | — | 2,313 | 1 in 144K | 2.3K | Papadopoulos | 270 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Papadopoulos | 155 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 82K | 711 | Papadopoulos | 117 |
| CY Cyprus | #25 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Papadopoulos | 80 |
| SE Sweden | — | 442 | 1 in 23K | 442 | Papadopoulos | 34 |
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; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Georgios Papadopoulosb. 1919GRDictator of Greece from 1967 to 1973
- Panos Papadopulosb. 1920GRnot in their usual nameGerman-Greek actor (1920-2001)
- Tassos Papadopoulosb. 1934CY5th President of the Republic of Cyprus (2003-2008)
- Lakis Papadopoulosb. 1948GRGreek singer-songwriter
- Alexander Payneb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican film director, producer and screenwriter (born 1961)
- Lazaros Papadopoulosb. 1980GRGreek basketball player (born 1980)
- Dimitrios Papadopoulosb. 1981GRGreek association football player
- Avraam Papadopoulosb. 1984AUGreek association football player
- Giannis Papadopoulosb. 1989GRGreek former footballer
- Kyriakos Papadopoulosb. 1992GRGreek footballer
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 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Papadópoulos mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Greek Παπαδόπουλος (Papadópoulos). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Papadópoulos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.9 thousand people named Papadópoulos in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled παπαδοπουλος.
- How common is the name Papadópoulos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,313 people named Papadópoulos in 2010, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
- How common is Papadópoulos compared with other names?
- In Greece, Papadópoulos is the 32nd most common surname of 112,415 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/papad%C3%B3poulosThe 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, “Papadópoulos” — the 32nd most common surname in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.