Potò
surname · Latin script
Potò is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 28K
- ITItaly≈1 in 133K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, 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 Poto in US United States, ZA South Africa, PH Philippines and 3 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Potò 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Poto | 20 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 431K | — | Poto | 14 |
| IT Italy | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 133K | listed | Poto | 11 |
| US United States | 192 | 1 in 1.7M | 221 | Poto | 122 |
| PH Philippines | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Poto | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Poto | 18 |
| HR Croatia | 11 | 1 in 384K | 11 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 Potò have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Potò in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poto.
- How common is the name Potò?
- In the United States, the national register counted 192 people named Potò in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Potò?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pot%C3%B2The 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, “Potò”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.