Poupard
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: chubby baby
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Poupard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 834K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K
- BEBelgium1 in 733K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- 1 in 700K (inferred from the name graph)
399 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A type of wooden doll.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Poupard is read
(measured from records)Poupard is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French69%
chubby baby
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de l’ancien français poupard ‘enfant en bas âge’, surnom d’un individu au visage poupin.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English26%
A type of wooden doll.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Poupard 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 399 | 1 in 834K | 410 | Poupard | 122 |
| BE Belgium | 16 | 1 in 733K | 16 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 16 | 1 in 2.8M | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
399 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)- Paul Poupardb. 1930FRCatholic cardinal
- Jean-Jacques Poupardb. 1959FRFrench politician
- Laurent Poupardb. 1962Ph.D. Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne 1998
- Joël Poupardb. 1963FRFrench politician
- Julien Poupardb. 1981FRFrench cinematographer
- Guillaume PoupardFRhead of the French computer security agency ANSSI
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 410 | #48,380 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 399 | #52,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 384 | #57,292 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 16 | #55,438 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 16 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #375,227 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Poupard come from?
- A type of wooden doll. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Poupard mean?
- In French, chubby baby
- In which country does Poupard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 399 people named Poupard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poupard.
- Where is Poupard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Poupard is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 700 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Poupard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 399 people named Poupard in 2010, about 1 in 834 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poupardThe 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, “Poupard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.