Zoppo

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Alternately with and without syncopation

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

/zoʊpoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Zoppo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.7M
  • USUnited States1 in 2.2M

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.

United States (measured from records)

151 people, 2010

Sources
54 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Alternately with and without syncopation.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Zoppo is read(measured from records)

Zoppo is one spelling over 4 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.

  • English48%

    Alternately with and without syncopation.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish21%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Zoppo in Spanish.

  • Italian14%

    lame, limp, crippled

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    do lat. med. cloppus, coxo, claudicante; alude a defeito físico nas pernas

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

    lame. Var.: Zoppi. Dims.: Zucchelli, Zucchello, Zucchetti, Zucchetto, Zucchetta, Zucchini, Zucchino, Zuccol(in)i, Zuccolo, Zuccotti, Zuccotto. Aug.: Zucconi. Dims.: Zopetti, Zoppetto, Zoppini, Zoppino. Zucker i. German: metonymic occupational name for a

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

    Variante di Zoppi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • Portuguese8.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Zoppo in Portuguese.

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)

Zoppo 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 Zoppo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1511 in 2.2M171Zoppo22
BR Brazil671 in 3.2M67——
AR Argentina341 in 1.3M34——
BE Belgium71 in 1.7M7—1
IT Italy≈2 est.≈1 in 35MlistedZoppo54
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

151 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: the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Zoppo 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 German, unclear; old Germanic name

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)

1400160018002000Paolo Zoppo, b. 1450Rocco Zoppo, b. 1450Agostino Zoppo, b. 1520Ciro E. Zoppo, b. 1923Donato Zoppo, b. 1975

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)

FormalDear Zoppo,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Zoppo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000171#98,298
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010151#115,639
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020148#122,574
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—67#85,160
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—34—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20087#86,374
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#407,555
IT ItalyDizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978)———
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

What does the name Zoppo mean, and where does it come from?
Alternately with and without syncopation. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Zoppo?
A machine transcription gives /zoʊpoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Zoppo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 151 people named Zoppo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zoppo.
Where is Zoppo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zoppo is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 1.3 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zoppo?
In the United States, the national register counted 151 people named Zoppo in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.

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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, “Zoppo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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