Potie
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Potie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 132K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 170K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 17M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
≈420 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Potie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 165K | 57 | Potie | 135 |
| BE Belgium | 89 | 1 in 132K | 89 | Potie | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Potie | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 17M | 10 | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Potie | 2 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)- Jean-Claude Potieb. 1949FRFrench politician
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 95 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 89 | #17,077 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 83 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 32 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Potie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 415 people named Potie in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled potie.
- Where is Potie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Potie is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 132 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Potie?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 89 people named Potie in 2008, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Potie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/potieThe 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, “Potie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.