Poppel
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pəpəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Poppel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 87K
- USUnited States1 in 1.4Mas Poeppel
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Poppel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pöppel in DE Germany, AT Austria.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Poppel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Poppel | 67 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Pöppel | 60 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Poppel | 38 |
| US United States | — | 245as Poeppel | 1 in 1.4M | 245 | Poppel | 151 |
| FR France | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 738K | 7 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 312K | — | Poppel | 36 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Pöppel | 12 |
| PL Poland | — | 23 | 1 in 1.7M | 14 | Poppel | 1 |
| GL Greenland | #171 | — | — | — | Poppel | 6 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Poppel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a poplar (tree of genus Populus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, poplar (tree)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, poplar
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)
- Johann Poppelb. 1807DEGerman painter and publisher (1807-1882)
- Hans Poppelb. 1942DEGerman pianist and illustrator
- Søren Poppelb. 1963Danish actor
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 215 | #91,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 182 | #99,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 180 | #94,227 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #111,828 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #146,104 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Poppel?
- A machine transcription gives /pəpəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Poppel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Poppel in the Netherlands, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poppel.
- How common is the name Poppel?
- In Poland, the national register counted 23 people named Poppel in 2026, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Poppel compared with other names?
- In Greenland, Poppel is the 171st most common surname of 229 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poppelThe 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, “Poppel” — the 171st most common surname in Greenland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.