Pooh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Short for Winnie the Pooh
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pooh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 251K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 323K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 251K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short for Winnie the Pooh.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pooh 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 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Pooh | 103 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Pooh | 14 |
| IN India | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 36M | 80 | Pooh | 12 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Pooh | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Pooh | 20 |
| CA Canada | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Pooh | 12 |
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: the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 80 | #4,355 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #135,080 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #5,537 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pooh mean, and where does it come from?
- Short for Winnie the Pooh. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pooh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 155 people named Pooh in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pooh.
- How common is the name Pooh?
- Mondonomo estimates about 160 people in the United States have Pooh as their first surname, about 1 in 2.1 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poohThe 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, “Pooh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.