Potti

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Potti is a surname, with more bearers in India than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Telugu, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 71K
  • USUnited States1 in 29M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈19K

across 2 countries

Sources
41

9.8K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 71K

India

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by estimated bearers.

Where Potti is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India≈19K9.7K rec.1 in 71K3.6KPotti41
US United States≈1191 rec.1 in 29M169Potti2
BE Belgium22
AR Argentina11
PL Poland2
ES Spain56
BR Brazil44
EE Estonia9
EC Ecuador1

Roughly 19K people in India bear this name (about 1 in 71K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • Hindi10K59%
  • Telugu3.6K21%
  • English1.4K8%
  • Malayalam1.3K8%
  • Spanish3492%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi10,03659%
Telugu3,60021%
English1,3878%
Malayalam1,3398%
Spanish3492%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Evidence

Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Potti
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls3.6K#931
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls2.7K#2,493
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020169#110,961
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010109#150,452
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)56#41,370
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)56#40,981
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)44#114,634
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200822#45,537
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)11
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)9#11,895
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)5#16,265
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19484

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-06 data build · 99 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Potti?
We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Potti (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
In which country does Potti have the most bearers?
We estimate about 19 thousand people bear Potti in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled potti.
Where is Potti most common?
Potti is densest in India, where we estimate about 1 in 71 thousand people carry it.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Potti”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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