Poet

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A person who writes poems (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/poet/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Poet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 369 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • 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)

369 people, 2010

Record sources
151 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Poet

  • Spanish:/poet/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

A person who writes poems.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where the surname Poet is found

(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.

Where Poet is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3691 in 901K396Poet151
IN India≈130 est.≈1 in 11M9Poet6
FR France≈100 est.≈1 in 656K7—1
DE Germany≈96 est.≈1 in 870K—Poet32
IT Italy≈85 est.≈1 in 690K—Poet3
IE Ireland≈78 est.≈1 in 70K—Poet4
AT Austria≈32 est.≈1 in 289K—Poet7
SG Singapore≈16 est.≈1 in 377K—Poet1

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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Poet is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Mexico, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pöet, Poét, Poęt, Pôet, Poët

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Poët, Poèt, Poêt

  • Ukrainian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Latvia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

    Also written Поэта, Поета, Поет, Поэт, Poeta

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Poët

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Po'Et, Pôét

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)
1850190019502000Lidia Poët, b. 1855Paul Poet, b. 1971Bruno Poet, b. 2000

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)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.

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.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Poet?
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. After it come India, France, Germany and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
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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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” — ranked 49767th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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