Poyo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a bench of stone or other material that is attached to a door
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Poyo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 69K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 60K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 117K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
≈940 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Poio in ES Spain.
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(measured from records)
a bench of stone or other material that is attached to a door
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Poyo is read(measured from records)
Poyo is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish59%
a bench of stone or other material that is attached to a door
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
palm wine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Poyo in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Poyo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Poyo | 17 |
| ES Spain | 724 | 1 in 69K | 724 | Poio | 68 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Poyo | 8 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 474K | — | Poyo | 4 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Poyo | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 134 | 1 in 339K | 134 | Poyo | 32 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Poyo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Malay, proud of oneself; to feel oneself as better than the others (in a rather uneasy manner).
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 724 | #5,904 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 724 | #5,904 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 134 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Poyo mean, and where does it come from?
- a bench of stone or other material that is attached to a door Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Poyo?
- In the etymology graph, Poggio is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Poyo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 939 people named Poyo in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poyo.
- How common is the name Poyo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 724 people named Poyo, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poyoThe 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, “Poyo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.