Popek
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈpoʊpɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Popek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Popek.
- PLPoland1 in 9.6K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 24K
- HRCroatia1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
3,975 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Polish Popek.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Popek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 3,975 | 1 in 9.6K | 2K | — | — |
| US United States | 685 | 1 in 486K | 704 | Popek | 17 |
| CZ Czechia | 450 | 1 in 24K | 450 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 124 | 1 in 34K | 124 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 40 | 1 in 53K | 40 | — | — |
3,975 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Popek is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovenian, navel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »ptica vodena 1° mergus, podiceps fluviatilis, 2° upupa epops« = pupac (Bošnjaci, Županja) — pupak (Koprivnica) »isto«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)
- Tadeusz Popekb. 1915PLPolish resistance fighter (1915–1942)
- Ryszard Popekb. 1937PLPolish botanist
- Jacek Popekb. 1939PLPolish designer
- Jan Popekb. 1942PLpainter (1942-1980)
- Gerald J. Popekb. 1946UScomputer scientist (1946–2008)
- Leon Popekb. 1958PLPolish archivist
- Artur Popekb. 1960PLPolish painter
- Anna Popekb. 1968PLPolish journalist, television presenter
- Jacek Popekb. 1978PLPolish footballer
- Mark Popekb. 1990USProfessional football player, offensive lineman
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 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2K | #1,295 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.9K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.9K | #1,396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 704 | #31,167 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 685 | #33,343 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 665 | #36,244 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 450 | #3,425 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 450 | #3,149 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 124 | #6,557 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 124 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 40 | #8,897 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Popek mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Popek. Recorded by Wiktionary and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- How do you pronounce Popek?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpoʊpɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Popek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Popek, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Popek most common?
- Popek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Popek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,975 people named Popek in 2026, about 1 in 9.6 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/popekThe 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, “Popek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.