Popat
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pəpæt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Popat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.4M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.8M
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Phophat in TH Thailand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Popat 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Popat | 8 |
| US United States | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 9.6M | 346 | Popat | 137 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | 1.8K | Popat | 87 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | — | Popat | 3 |
| TH Thailand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 13M | #1,021,851 | Phophat | 16 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Popat is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, nominative plural of poppa
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)
- Dolar Popatb. 1953GBBritish politician (born 1953)
- Sita Popat Taylorb. 1967GBBritish technologist
- Aparna Popatb. 1978INIndian badminton player
- Raj Popatb. 1986GBbadminton player
- Daniel Popatb. 1990DEGerman actor
- Shriya Popatb. 1998INIndian dancer and actress
- Ketul C. PopatUSresearcher
- Sanjay PopatGBresearcher
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Popat?
- A machine transcription gives /pəpæt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Popat a male or female name?
- Popat is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Popat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 111 people named Popat in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled popat.
- How common is the name Popat?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people in Pakistan have Popat as their first given name, about 1 in 2.1 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Popat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/popatThe 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, “Popat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.