Papon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname from Occitan
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/papɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Papon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- MLMali≈1 in 75K
- PLPoland1 in 250K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a surname from Occitan
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Papon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 330 | Papon | 219 |
| ML Mali | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Papon | 1 |
| PL Poland | 153 | 1 in 250K | 78 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 744K | — | Papon | 6 |
| US United States | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | listed | Papon | 35 |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | Papon | 10 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Papon is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, accusative singular of papo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, superessive singular of pap
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Jean Paponb. 1505FRFrench jurist (1505-1590)
- Loÿs Paponb. 1533FRFrench playwright (1533-1599)
- Jean-Pierre Paponb. 1734FRFrench historian (1734-1803)
- Alexandre Paponb. 1821FRFrench politician
- Maurice Paponb. 1910FRFrench civil servant, Vichy collaborator, and war criminal (1910–2007)
- Christiane Paponb. 1924FRFrench politician
- Monique Paponb. 1934FRFrench politician (1934–2018)
- Lucienne Butonb. 1936FRnot in their usual nameFrench local politician
- Pierre Paponb. 1939FRFrench physicist
- Victor Paponb. 2001FRFrench cyclist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 577 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 453 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 448 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 414 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 391 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 384 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 371 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 365 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 330 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 307 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 264 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Papon mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Occitan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Papon?
- A machine transcription gives /papɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Papon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Papon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled papon.
- How common is the name Papon?
- In Poland, the national register counted 153 people named Papon in 2026, about 1 in 250 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paponThe 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, “Papon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.