Popow

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/pəpaʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Popow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 23K
  • PLPoland1 in 119K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

321 people, 2026

Record sources
107 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Turkmenistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Popow 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.

Where Popow is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland3211 in 119K164Popow1
DE Germany≈300 est.≈1 in 267K—Popow55
TM Turkmenistan≈240 est.≈1 in 23K—Popow1
US United States2051 in 1.6M205Popow107
CA Canada≈34 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Popow27
LR Liberia≈8 est.≈1 in 614K—Popow1
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 701Klisted——

321 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Popow is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Popów

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Popów

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Aleksandr Popov, b. 1859Vladimir Popov, b. 1887Liubov Popova, b. 1889Markian Popov, b. 1902Gavriil Popov, b. 1904Oleg Popov, b. 1930Gabriel Popov, b. 1936Leonid Popov, b. 1945Aleksandr Popov, b. 1971Goran Popov, b. 1984
  • Aleksandr Popovb. 1859RUnot in their usual nameRussian physicist (1859–1906)
  • Vladimir Popovb. 1887RUnot in their usual nameRussian and Soviet actor (1887-1955)
  • Liubov Popovab. 1889RUnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1889-1924)
  • Markian Popovb. 1902RUnot in their usual nameSoviet general (1902-1969)
  • Gavriil Popovb. 1904RUnot in their usual nameRussian Soviet composer (1904–1972)
  • Oleg Popovb. 1930RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian clown and circus artist (1930–2016)
  • Gabriel Popovb. 1936RUnot in their usual name1st Mayor of Moscow
  • Leonid Popovb. 1945UAnot in their usual nameSoviet cosmonaut
  • Aleksandr Popovb. 1971RUnot in their usual nameRussian swimmer and politician (born 1971)
  • Goran Popovb. 1984MKnot in their usual nameNorth Macedonian footballer

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)
FormalDear Popow,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Popow
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010205#90,113
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000191#89,895
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020187#102,571
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026164—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—164#19,392
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026157—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—157#20,582
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Popow?
A machine transcription gives /pəpaʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Popow have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 321 people named Popow, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled popow.
How common is the name Popow?
In Poland, the national register counted 321 people named Popow in 2026, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.

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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, “Popow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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