Pupi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Pupo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pəpi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pupi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 240K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 571K
- CLChile≈1 in 826K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 240K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma plural de Pupo.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pupi 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.
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Pupi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romansh, alternative form of palpiri (“paper”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pupa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, nominative/vocative plural of pups
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bzq, sago meal, raw sago, sago tree
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latin, inflection of pūpus:
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Angelo Pupib. 1927philosophy historian, university teacher (1927-2011)
- Francesca PupiITItalian art historian
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 117 | #56,228 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Pupi mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Pupo. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Pupi?
- A machine transcription gives /pəpi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pupi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 260 people named Pupi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pupi.
- How common is the name Pupi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 117 people named Pupi, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pupiThe 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, “Pupi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.