Potapov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈpɑtəˌpɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Potapov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 2.8Kas Потапов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 9.6Kas Потапов
- EEEstonia≈1 in 12K
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 Potapov 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 named Потапов, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Потапов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 3 more.
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.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Potapov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #217 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Потапов | 167 |
| UA Ukraine | #971 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Потапов | 43 |
| BY Belarus | #600 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Потапов | 19 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Потапов | 6 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Потапов | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 333 | 1 in 115K | 333 | Potapov | 7 |
| EE Estonia | #205 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 137 | Потапов | 13 |
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); the ee-stat-nimed 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)
- Aleksandr Potapovb. 1818RURussian statesman (1818–1886)
- Leonid Pavlovich Potapovb. 1905RUturkologist (1905–2000)
- Leonid Potapovb. 1935RURussian politician
- Viktor Potapovb. 1947RUSoviet-Russian sailor (1947-2017)
- Vladimir Potapovb. 1957RURussian film director
- Maksim Potapovb. 1980RURussian ice hockey player
- Alexei Potapovb. 1989RURussian ice hockey player
- Nikolai Potapovb. 1990RURussian boxer
- Yegor Potapovb. 1993RURussian footballer (born 1993)
- Yaroslav Potapovb. 1999RURussian swimmer
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 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 333 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 333 | #9,792 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 137 | #510 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,290 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Potapov?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɑtəˌpɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Potapov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Потапов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Potapov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 333 people named Potapov in 2026, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
- How common is Potapov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Potapov is the 217th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/potapovThe 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, “Potapov” — the 217th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.