Populo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hoi polloi, commoners, plebs
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Populo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 371K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 3.8M
- USUnited States≈1 in 6.4M
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)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 371K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
hoi polloi, commoners, plebs
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Populo 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 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 371K | 26 | Populo | 107 |
| US United States | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 6.4M | listed | Populo | 5 |
| ES Spain | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | — | 1 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Populo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, first-person singular present indicative of popular
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, to ravage, devastate, lay waste
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, people, ethnicity, population
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Interlingua, people
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 16 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Populo mean, and where does it come from?
- hoi polloi, commoners, plebs Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Populo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 183 people named Populo in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled populo.
- How common is the name Populo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 13 people named Populo, about 1 in 3.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/populoThe 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, “Populo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.