Popiel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈpɔ.pjɛl/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Popiel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 3,427 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Popiel. Popiel is also written Попель in Cyrillic.
- PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 367K
- USUnited States1 in 582K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Popiel 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
3,427 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Popiel in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Попель in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and Popel in PL Poland, US United States, CZ Czechia.
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.
How to pronounce Popiel
- Polish:/ˈpɔ.pjɛl/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Polish Popiel.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Popiel is found
(measured from records)Popiel 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 | 3,427 | 1 in 11K | 1.7K | Popel | 7 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Попель | 32 |
| RU Russia | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Попель | 104 |
| US United States | 572 | 1 in 582K | 582 | Popel | 13 |
| BY Belarus | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Попель | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | 71as Popel | 1 in 151K | 72 | Popel | 16 |
| EE Estonia | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 44K | listed | — | 5 |
3,427 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling popiel. 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 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)- Wincenty Teofil Popielb. 1825PLPolish Roman Catholic priest (1825–1912)
- Karol Popielb. 1887PLPolish politician
- Maurycy Popielb. 1990PLPolish actor
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Popiel mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Popiel. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Popiel?
- In Polish /ˈpɔ.pjɛl/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Popiel?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Popiel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled popel. After it come Ukraine, Russia, United States and Belarus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Popiel most common?
- Popiel is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Popiel?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,427 people named Popiel in 2026, about 1 in 11 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/popielThe 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, “Popiel” — ranked 1581st in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.