Potapova
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/pɐt̪apovə/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from потапова · uncertain
Potapova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Potapova is also written Потапова in Cyrillic.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 64Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 66K
- PLPoland1 in 93K
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 Potapova 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)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈60,000 named Потапова, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Potapova in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Потапова in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 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.
How to pronounce Potapova
- Russian:/pɐt̪apovə/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Potapova is found
(measured from records)Potapova 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 | #187 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Потапова | 162 |
| UA Ukraine | #802 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Потапова | 39 |
| BY Belarus | #458 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Потапова | 21 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #780 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Потапова | 41 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Потапова | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 413 | 1 in 93K | 413 | Potapova | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Potapova | 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). 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)- Anastasiya Taranova-Potapovab. 1985RURussian triple jumper
- Daniela Potapovab. 1996DEGerman rhythmic gymnast
- Anastasia Potapovab. 2001RUAustrian tennis 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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Potapova?
- In Russian /pɐt̪apovə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Potapova?
- Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Потапова in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Potapova?
- In Poland, the national register counted 413 people named Potapova in 2026, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
- How common is Potapova compared with other names?
- In Russia, Potapova is the 187th 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/potapovaThe 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, “Potapova” — the 187th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.