Popke
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/poʊpk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Popke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 435K
- CNChina≈1 in 581K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 435K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pöpke in SE Sweden.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Popke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Popke | 2 |
| US United States | — | 288 | 1 in 1.2M | 303 | Popke | 128 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | Popke | 42 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 853K | — | Popke | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Popke | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 649K | — | Pöpke | 4 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 999K | — | Popke | 2 |
| BB Barbados | #965 | — | — | — | Popke | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)
Popke 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 Western Frisian, diminutive of pop
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)
- Julia Popkeb. 1986DEGerman television actress (Schloss Einstein, 1999-2005) (1986-)
- Sofie Popkeb. 1990DEGerman television actress (Einstein Castle, 2003-2006)
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 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 303 | #61,855 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 288 | #68,345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 281 | #74,224 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
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 Popke?
- A machine transcription gives /poʊpk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Popke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Popke in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled popke.
- How common is the name Popke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 288 people named Popke in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Popke compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Popke is the 965th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Popke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/popkeThe 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, “Popke” — the 965th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.