Popa

2,890 people in the United States were counted with the surname Popa in the 2020 census, making it the 10,583rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 103,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,890
Rank: 10,583rd
How common: 1 in 103,000
Per 100,000: 0.97

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Popa described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.0%
Hispanic or Latino 7.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Popa

Vasko Popa (1922–1991)Serbian writer
Adrian Popa (born 1988)Romanian footballer
Iuliana Popa (born 1996)Romanian rower
Mihai Popa (born 2000)Romanian footballer
Marius Popa (born 1978)Romanian footballer
Celestina Popa (born 1970)Romanian artistic gymnast
Rosemary Popa (born 1991)Australian and American rower
Cornelia Popa (born 1950)Romanian high jumper and pentathlete

People named Popa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Popa

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.