Pope

Pope is the 541st most common surname in the United States, shared by 61,177 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,886.

By the numbers

People: 61,177
Rank: 541st
How common: 1 in 4,886
Per 100,000: 20.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

From pope; also used in Ireland/Scotland as a surname meaning "papa, father.".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.1%
Black, not Hispanic 23.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Pope

Alexander Pope (1688–1744)English poet
Nick Pope (born 1992)English association football player
Eddie Pope (born 1973)American soccer player
John Pope (1822–1892)Union United States Army general
Carly Pope (born 1980)Canadian actress
Cassadee Pope (born 1989)American singer
Jeremy Pope (born 1992)American actor
Ronald Pope (1920–1997)British sculptor of religious themes

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

Surnames like Pope

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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.