Popiel
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈpɑpiɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Popiel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Popiel.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 37Kas Попель(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 211Kas Попель
- PLPoland1 in 11K
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)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
3,427 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Polish Popiel.
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Попель | 32 |
| RU Russia | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Попель | 104 |
| US United States | 572 | 1 in 582K | 582 | Popel | 13 |
| BY Belarus | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Попель | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | 71as Popel | 1 in 151K | 72 | Popel | 16 |
| EE Estonia | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 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)
- Ignatz von Popielb. 1863PLPolish-Ukrainian chess player (1863-1941)
- Antoni Popielb. 1865PLPolish sculptor (1865-1910)
- Karol Popielb. 1887PLPolish politician
- Stepan Popelb. 1907USAmerican chess player (1909-1987)
- Jacek Popielb. 1954PLPolish theatrologist
- Lidia Popielb. 1959PLPolish actor, model and photographer
- Eva Popielb. 1982GBactress, model and television host of Polish, British and Japanese origins living in South Korea
- Maurycy Popielb. 1990PLPolish actor
- Julia PopielPLPolish writer
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #1,581 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #1,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 582 | #40,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 579 | #36,463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 572 | #38,640 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #120,846 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- 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 Popiel mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Popiel. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Popiel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɑpiɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Popiel have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.