Popkin
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɑpkɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Popkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Wilts. see Pobjoy .
- USUnited States1 in 454K(measured from records)
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 183K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 271K
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 Popkin 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 183K (inferred from the name graph)
732 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Попкин in RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Wilts. see Pobjoy .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Popkin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 732 | 1 in 454K | 786 | Popkin | 226 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 383K | 164 | Popkin | 47 |
| EG Egypt | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 606K | — | Popkin | 2 |
| RU Russia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Попкин | 60 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 357K | — | Popkin | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Popkin | 2 |
| BY Belarus | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Попкин | 2 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | Popkin | 3 |
732 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
- Cedric Popkinb. 1890AUAustralian soldier (1890-1968)
- Zelda Popkinb. 1898USAmerican novel and mystery author (1898-1983)
- Bluma Trellb. 1903USnot in their usual nameAmerican classicist, archaeologist, and numismatist (1903–1997)
- Ruth Popkinb. 1913US18th President of Hadassah
- Leo C. Popkinb. 1914CAAmerican film director and produce
- Richard Popkinb. 1923USAmerican academic philosopher (1923–2005)
- Gary Popkinb. 1938USAmerican politician
- Barry Popkinb. 1944USAmerican food scientist
- Lenka Popkinb. 1978CZCzech gymnast
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 786 | #28,548 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 732 | #31,587 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 727 | #33,699 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 164 | #24,177 |
| GB United Kingdom | Welsh Surnames (Morgan & Morgan, 1985) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Popkin mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Wilts. see Pobjoy . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Popkin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɑpkɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Popkin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 732 people named Popkin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled popkin.
- How common is the name Popkin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 732 people named Popkin in 2010, about 1 in 454 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/popkinThe 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, “Popkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.