Poet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A person who writes poems
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/poet/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Poet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 660K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 870Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 892K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
369 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A person who writes poems.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Poet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 369 | 1 in 901K | 396 | Poet | 151 |
| IN India | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 11M | 9 | Poet | 6 |
| FR France | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 656K | 7 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 870K | — | Poet | 32 |
| IT Italy | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 690K | — | Poet | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Poet | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 289K | — | Poet | 7 |
| SG Singapore | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Poet | 1 |
369 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Poet 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 fro, third-person singular present indicative of poeir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, loot, stolen money
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, POÉT, -Ă, poeți, -te, s. m. și f. 1. Persoană care compune poezii, autor de poezii. 2. Persoană înzestrată cu imaginație și sensibilitate de poet (1).
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)- Lidia Poëtb. 1855ITItalian lawyer
- Luigi Poetb. 1915ITItalian association football player and politician (1915-1984)
- Augus Poetb. 1947UYUruguayan writer
- Paul Poetb. 1971ATAustrian film director
- Bruno Poetb. 2000GBBritish lighting designer
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 396 | #49,767 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 369 | #55,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 368 | #59,374 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 11 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #2,917 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 9 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Poet mean, and where does it come from?
- A person who writes poems. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Poet?
- In Spanish /poet/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Poet have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 369 people named Poet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poet.
- How common is the name Poet?
- In the United States, the national register counted 369 people named Poet in 2010, about 1 in 901 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/poetThe 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, “Poet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.