Pôtel
surname · Latin script
Pôtel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 217K
- BEBelgium1 in 419K
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
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, 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 Potel in FR France, ES Spain, US United States and 2 more.
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)De l’ancien français potel « petit pot »; surnom d’un potier.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pôtel 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 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 323 | Potel | 219 |
| AR Argentina | 210 | 1 in 217K | 210 | — | — |
| IN India | 121 | 1 in 11M | 121 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 107 | 1 in 467K | 107 | Potel | 1 |
| US United States | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 5M | listed | Potel | 22 |
| CA Canada | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Potel | 12 |
| BE Belgium | 28 | 1 in 419K | 28 | Potel | 7 |
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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Pôtel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Pôtel in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled potel.
- How common is the name Pôtel?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 210 people named Pôtel, about 1 in 217 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%B4telThe 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, “Pôtel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.