Joplin
loc · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the Biblical personal name Job
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Joplin is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
no count published
Reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
patronymic from the Biblical personal name Job.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joplin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2.1K | — | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 93 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 1 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Joplin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Son of Job.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, Scott US composer; Janis, US rock
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, singer; town, MO
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Scott Joplinb. 1868USAmerican composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)
- Germaine Joplinb. 1903AUAustralian geologist (1903–1989)
- Janis Joplinb. 1943USAmerican singer (1943–1970)
- Stan Joplinb. 1957USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Josh Joplinb. 1972USAmerican musician (born 1972)
- David Joplinb. 2002USAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
- Larry Joplincollege basketball player (1964–1964)
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,233 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,759 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,854 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 93 | #66,867 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Joplin mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the Biblical personal name Job. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Joplin have the most bearers?
- Joplin is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Joplin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joplinThe 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, “Joplin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.