Poppen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to have sex; to fuck
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpɑpən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Poppen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 81K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 449K
- NLNetherlands1 in 51K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to have sex; to fuck
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Poppen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Poppen | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Poppen | 72 |
| US United States | 741 | 1 in 449K | 843 | Poppen | 198 |
| NL Netherlands | 337 | 1 in 51K | 337 | Poppen | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 539K | 5 | Poppen | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Poppen | 1 |
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 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Poppen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, patronymisch zu dem Rufnamen Poppo/Boppo; 457 Träger
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In Swedish, definite singular of pop
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, to play with puppets
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Western Frisian, plural 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)
- Jacob Poppenb. 1576NLDutch politician (1576-1624)
- Hermann Poppenb. 1885DEGerman conductor (1885–1956)
- Sherman Poppenb. 1930USAmerican inventor
- Diemut Poppenb. 1960DEGerman violist and professor
- Gregory Poppenb. 1963USAmerican actor
- Claudio Poppenb. 1974NLDutch footballers
- Gedeon Poppenb. 1989NLDutch association football player
- Sean Poppenb. 1994USbaseball player
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 843 | #29,787 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 807 | #27,970 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 741 | #31,285 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 337 | #6,045 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Poppen mean, and where does it come from?
- to have sex; to fuck Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Poppen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɑpən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Poppen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Poppen in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poppen.
- Where is Poppen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Poppen is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Poppen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 741 people named Poppen in 2010, about 1 in 449 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poppenThe 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, “Poppen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.