Puppo

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Puppo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variante regional de Pupo.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 51K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 275K
  • UYUruguay1 in 5.4K

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)

≈1,800 people, est.

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

variante regional de Pupo.

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Puppo 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.

Where Puppo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 35KlistedPuppo14
AR Argentina—8871 in 51K887Puppo50
BR Brazil—7691 in 275K769Puppo47
UY Uruguay#9666231 in 5.4K623Puppo29
FR France—≈360 est.≈1 in 189K26——
PE Peru—≈170 est.≈1 in 187K—Puppo27

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Puppo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Puppó

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Italy

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Пуппо

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Puppo 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 Latin, dative/ablative singular of puppus

    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)

1700180019002000Giuseppe Puppo, b. 1749Ernesto Puppo, b. 1904Giulio Pacuvio, b. 1910Henri Puppo, b. 1913Mario Puppo, b. 1913Sandro Puppo, b. 1918Romano Puppo, b. 1933Giancarlo Puppo, b. 1938Ronald Puppo, b. 1954Federico Puppo, b. 1986

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Puppo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—887—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—769#11,633
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—623—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196140—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197130—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195130—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192130—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194127—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193119—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190118—

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Puppo mean, and where does it come from?
variante regional de Pupo. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
In which country does Puppo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Puppo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled puppo.
Where is Puppo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Puppo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 5.4 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Puppo?
In Argentina, the national register counted 887 people named Puppo, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
How common is Puppo compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Puppo is the 966th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Puppo” — the 966th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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