Poots
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/puts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Poots is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): London. probably a variant of Potts ; compare Alys Poott or Pott, 1568 in IGI (Stone in Oxney, Kent). Further information: It is now more common in Ireland than in England.
- NONorway1 in 195K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
- NLNetherlands1 in 15Kas Puts
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Poots itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 195K (inferred from the name graph)
1,128 named Puts, 2007
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Puts in NL Netherlands, PL Poland.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): London. probably a variant of Potts ; compare Alys Poott or Pott, 1568 in IGI (Stone in Oxney, Kent). Further information: It is now more common in Ireland than in England.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Poots 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,128as Puts | 1 in 15K | 1.1K | Puts | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 288as Puts | 1 in 41K | 288 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 36as Puts | 1 in 1.1M | 18 | Puts | 4 |
| NO Norway | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 24as Puts | 1 in 8.8M | 24 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
1,128 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Linda Pootsb. 1929EEEstonian zoologist, journalist and librarian (1929-2015)
- Edwin Pootsb. 1965GBBritish politician (born 1965)
- Tysson Pootsb. 1988USWide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys
- Imogen Pootsb. 1989GBBritish actress
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 192 | #10,843 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #35,988 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Poots mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): London. probably a variant of Potts ; compare Alys Poott or Pott, 1568 in IGI (Stone in Oxney, Kent). Further information: It is now more common in Ireland than in England. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Poots?
- A machine transcription gives /puts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Poots have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Puts, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Poots most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Poots is densest in Norway — about 1 in 195 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Poots?
- In Norway, the national register counted 28 people named Poots, about 1 in 195 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/pootsThe 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, “Poots”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.