What are the roots of the surname Popova? Popova: origin of the surname and interesting facts

Pop - “priest, priest, presbyter; a person appointed, consecrated, anointed, ordained to the spiritual rank or office of shepherd of souls” (Dahl).

According to V.A. Nikonov, Popov is “one of the most common surnames in Russia, especially in the north of the country. A count of surnames in the Arkhangelsk province (1897) showed an unprecedentedly high frequency - 20 Popovs per thousand people. In Moscow (1964) there are 30 thousand Popovs”; the author points out three possible meanings of the basis of the surname: “son of a priest,” “son of a priest” (from the nickname Pop) and “a priest’s worker—a priest’s worker” (Nikonov. P.95; see also: Chaikina. P.80). Yu.A. Fedosyuk shares this opinion: “Not all Popovs and Popkovs are descendants of priests. As a personal name, Pop (Popko) was very common among worldly people. Religious parents willingly named their children Pop or Popko.<...>Sometimes the surname Popov was given to a worker, a farm laborer” (Fedosyuk, pp. 179-180). According to E.N. Polyakova, the surname is based on a non-canonical name and nickname, “which the descendants of the priest could receive” (Polyakova. P. 180). About the Popovs - representatives of the clergy in the Perm province. in the first half of the 19th century, see: Mangileva. P.54,83,115-116,123,138,172-173, 201.

Interesting observations about the spread of the surname were made by V.A. Nikonov: “In the North, the surname Popov reigned supreme. In 6 central districts of Arkhangelsk province. it was worn by 2% of the rural population - a very high figure, given the extreme “dispersion” of surnames<...>. And in the small Syuzemskaya parish. Popovs made up even 20%. In the telephone directory of Arkhangelsk, no other surname even remotely competes with this one. The basis of the patronymic, later assigned to the surname, could not be the common noun Pop, but the proper name Pop, i.e. a nickname, not a position. Only as an assumption can one assume the cause of the election of the clergy in the North: there, until the 18th century. priests were not appointed from above, but were elected by the residents themselves from among themselves” (Nikonov. Geography... P.34). About the existence of the surname in the North (Kargopol), in the Urals and Trans-Urals, see: Zhitnikov. P.38-41.

The nickname (as well as the name, more often in the form Popko, Popok, Popka) has been fixed since the 15th century; some historical examples: “Kurilko Popov, hearsay, XIV-XV centuries; Ofonasei Pop, peasant, 1495; Senka Pop, peasant, 1495; Maximko Popov, peasant, 1498; Esko Popov son of Fedotov, native, 1500; Ivashko Popov, posadsky, 1500; Foma Grigoriev son of Popov, Belozersk townsman, 1613; The Popov family, week worker in Nizhny Novgorod, 1614; “Ofonka Larionov’s son, nicknamed Pop,” Yuriev peasant, 1633; Danilo Mikhailov son of Popov, Belozersk area clerk, 1678; Timoshka Popov, Kungur zemstvo elder, 1680; Mikhailo Pop, villager on the Don, 1684" (Tupikov); “Pop Fyodor Ivanovich Sverchkov Saburov, first half of the 16th century.” (Veselovsky I); “Cherdynets Senka Dmitriev son of Popov, 1623” (Polyakova); Popovs - six clerks and clerks in the 16th-17th centuries. (Veselovsky II). The Popovs have been known in Vologda since 1629 (Chaikin).

Among the Popovs - investors in the Dalmatovsky monastery at the end of the 17th century - early XVIII V. there were residents of Krasnomysskaya, Shadrinskaya, Tsarevo-Kurganskaya (church sexton), Kamyshlovskaya and Kalinovskaya villages, a peasant from the monastery itself, as well as strollers - Vazhanin and Mezenets (see: Mankova, pp. 222-223).

In Verkhotursky district the surname (possibly also as a paternal name) has been known since the first quarter of the 17th century: among the peasants who from the Neiva River “ran away unknown, and it is impossible to find them,” “Oska Popov” and “Kondrashko Popov” are mentioned (census of 1624 .).

The census of 1680 in the village of Borzunovskaya on the Lyala River took into account the yard of the Verkhoturye townsman Tit Osipovich Popov, with whom his sons Semyon, Ignatius, Ivan, Fedor, Kondratiy, Fotey and Mikhail lived; in the only courtyard of the village of Verkh-Turinskaya on the Tura River lived the peasant Efim Mikhailovich Popov with his sons Ivan, Panfil and Ipat, in the village of Brekhovaya on the Tagil River - the peasant Alexey Bogdanovich Popov with his sons Ivan, Semyon, Ulyan and another Ivan; in Belosludskaya village from 1670/71 there lived a white-local Cossack Sergei Ivanovich Popov, originally from the Vologda district, “a priest’s son,” he had a son Ivan; in Irbitskaya sl. - sexton Semyon Efimovich Popov with his sons Artemy and Ivan. About the Popovs in Pokrovskaya vol. Verkhotursky u. see: Brylin, Elkin. P.20.

In Kamyshevskaya village peasants Ivan Nikiforovich Popov, a native of Ustyug district, came. (“Bobrovsky’s pit is the coachman’s son”), and Davyd Eremeevich Popov, originally from Tigina vol. in the Charonda district, settled in the village of Golovyrina (census of 1695).

On the territory of the future Kamyshlovsky district. the surname has been found in many settlements since the end of the 17th century. In Belyakovskaya village (23:1) lived the peasant Mikhail Andreevich Popov (1690/91), another peasant of this settlement, Fyodor Ivanovich Popov, fled in the same year. The ancestor of the Popovs from the village of Yarovskaya (23:3) could have been the peasant of this village, Maxim Tikhonovich Popov; in the village of Nizhnyaya Aramylskaya (23:10) the Ustyug resident Emelyan Andreevich Popov settled in the farmstead in 1710, the boby Stepan Grigorievich Popov (“a wanderer between the yard”) and the peasant M.A. Popov (see above) also lived there; in the village of Uryumskaya, same Belyakovskaya village. lived the peasant Savva (Sava) Kiryakovich Popov with his brother Nikon (census of 1710).

The ancestors of the Popovs in the parish of Kuyarovskaya village. there were residents of this settlement (21:1): the peasant Parfeny Popov (1691/92), the pika Vasily Fedorovich Popov (his father, 80-year-old Fedor Ivanovich Popov, also lived in his house), the white-local Cossacks Ivan Potapovich and Fedor Grigorievich Popov, peasants Andrei and Pyotr Timofeevich Popov, as well as peasant Emelyan Fedotovich Popov from the village of Lugovoy who lived in the villages (22:5), boby Epifan Fedotovich Popov from the village of Zotina (22:4), peasants of the village of Yarovskaya (21:7) - brothers Daniil Parfenyevich (father Parfeny Gavrilovich lived in his house - see above) and Ivan Parfenyevich Popov, Leonty Ivanovich Popov and newcomers - Ferapont (Farafont) Timofeevich Popov and Ustyuzhan Yakov Ivanovich Popov, peasants of the village of Chupino (21:5) - Fedor Ivanovich Popov and, apparently, his two sons, who lived in separate households - Fedor and Dmitry Fedorovich Popov (census of 1710).

The ancestors of the Popovs in the parish of Ugetskaya village. could have been its inhabitants (25:1) - sexton Nikifor Ignatievich Popov and peasant Afanasy Fedorovich Popov (census of 1710); in the parish of Pyshminskaya village. - the white-local Cossack of this settlement (20:1) Ivan Fedorovich Popov, a native of Nitsynskaya village. (census 1680); in the Kamyshlovsky parish - white-local Cossacks of the Kamyshlovsky district. Yakov Nestorovich Popov, a native of the Tagil region, whose father “was there in the pope” (census of 1680), and Ivan Fedorovich Popov, 1681/82 (Shishonko III. P.835), who made a contribution to Dalmatovo Monastery “according to its soul” (Mankova. P.102).

The ancestors of the Popovs in the parish of Kalinovskaya village. (and also, possibly, in neighboring parishes) there could be residents of this settlement (33:1) - the peasant Konstantin Kirillovich Popov (census of 1710) and who made a contribution to the Dalmatovsky monastery in 1702 “Osip Sergiev Popov nicknamed Azov” (Mankova . p. 157); later, the widow of priest Stepan Popov, Ulyana Guryevna, lived in the settlement (census 1719); The peasant Maxim Popov, who lived in the village of Kolashnikova (possibly 42:5 and 44:5) in the same settlement, is listed in the 1710 census as a fugitive - probably it was he who was mentioned in the document of 1702 as a peasant of Kalinovskaya village. Maxim Ivanovich Popov (Shishonko III. P.855).

In the 17th century the surname is also recorded within the Kirginskaya syllabus: “In 1673, the white-local Cossack of the Kirginskaya Sloboda Vasily Popov and his comrades pleaded with the Tobolsk governor Pyotr Mikhailovich Saltykov (1673-1676) to allow him to build a new settlement in the place he had chosen, on the Yurmych River , but due to his poverty, he did not take advantage of the command given to him for this, and this place remained uninhabited” (PCEE. P.439).

At the beginning of the 18th century. in the village of Kachyusova, near the village of Yurmytskoye (26:1), there lived five brothers, recorded under the nickname “Popov Mukhin”, reminiscent double surname: Ignatius, Ivan (“with his son on the run not found”), Tryphon, Judas (Judas) and another Tryphon ( name lists 1708; Wed V late XVIII-XIX V. in Vologda: Popov-Vvedensky, Popov-Krasilnikov, Popov-Testov, Popov-Chukhin - Chaikin. P.80). In Yurmytskaya village (27:1) lived the peasant Kozma Ivanovich Popov, in the village of Kvashnina of the same settlement (28:9) - the peasant Arkhip Emelyanovich Popov with his brother Nikita (census of 1710); their descendants could be the Popovs from the parish of the village of Yurmytsky and Kurovskaya district.

In Beloyarskaya village lived the “retired pika” Afanasy Yakovlevich Popov (census of 1719).

Among the ancestors of the Popovs in the parish of Kolchedanskaya village. could have been a peasant from the Kolchedan fort, Pyotr Fedorovich Popov, who had sons Arkhip and Afanasy (census of 1719). The ancestors of the Popovs in the village of Borovoy (5:2) were probably the peasant Yakov Vasilyevich Popov and his son Peter (census of 1719), who lived in this village on a farmstead.

In the first half of the 18th century. the surname was widespread in the area of ​​the Kamensky plant. One of the ancestors of the Popovs in these places was the peasant of the “village above Lake Shablish” (10:1) Ivan Ivanovich Pop, who had sons Semyon, Yakov and Taras (census of 1719); later, his son, peasant Semyon Ivanovich Popov, lived in the same village of Shablishskaya with his son Ivan (II revision, 1745). In Kamenskaya village lived the sexton Yakov Popov (possibly also the son of I.I. Popov), the clerk Ivan Popov (died in 1735), in the village of Travyanskaya (3:1) - the peasant Evdokim Filimonovich Popov with his sons Dmitry and Ivan, in the village. Cheremkhina (13:1) - dragoon Ferapont (Farafont) Timofeevich Popov (died in 1734), in the village of Klyuchevskaya (4:7) - peasant Elisey Andreevich Popov with his sons Arist (he had sons Peter and two Ivans) and Fedor (recruited in 1741), at the Kamensky Upper Factories (2:4) - Mikhail Ivanovich Popov (died in 1730); in 1735, Afanasy and Ivan Andreevich Popov were accepted into the factory school, and upon completion they were subject to “assignment to different factories for different skills and other activities” (II revision, 1745).

In 1822, in Kamyshlov, the surname was borne by officials - the police officer (titular councilor) and the forwarding assistant (collegiate registrar) of the lower zemstvo court, ordinary (employees and non-employees) of the disabled team, a government worker in an artisan's shop, merchants, townspeople and peasants, in the Kamensky plant - a retired soldier and an indispensable factory worker, in the Kataisky fort, in Shcherbakovskaya, Krestovskaya, Krasnoyarskaya, Troitskaya, Ilyinskaya villages, in the villages of Temnovsky, Chetkarinsky and Galkinsky - clergy and clergymen, in Kolchedanskaya village. - clergyman, peasants and soldiers, in Tamakulskaya, Kuyarovskaya, Belyakovskaya, Kalinovskaya, Znamenskaya and Prokopyevskaya villages. - clergy and clergy and peasants, in the village of Travyanskoye - peasants and soldiers, in Pyshminskaya village. - priest and soldier, in Balairskaya village. - clergyman, tradesman and peasants, in the New Yurmytskaya village. - a clergyman and a retired soldier, in the village of Yurmytskoye - a clergyman, a soldier and peasants, in the Pyshminskaya economic village. - clergyman, retired soldier and peasants, in other places - peasants. Especially many Popov peasants lived in the village of Nasonova (1:7; 18 out of 49 households), Suvorskaya (3:4), Yarovskaya (21:7), Malaya Kvashnina (28:8), as well as in Kuyarovskaya village. (21:1).

Toponymic parallels: the village of Popova was in the Arkhangelsk parish of Novopyshminskaya village. (34:7, now the village of Popovka in the Bogdanovichi district); The village of Popova is in the Alapaevsky district, Popovo is in the Artinsky district, Popov Log is in the Novolyalinsky district.

The surname is widespread everywhere, especially in Dalmatovsky (Memory - 78 people), Kamyshlovsky (Memory - 74 people), Kamensky (Memory - 57 people), Talitsky (Memory - 44 people), Pyshminsky (Memory - 34 people) district

1.1. Kamyshlov city, parish of the Intercession Cathedral, from 1668 - Kamyshevskaya (after 1686 - Kamyshlovskaya) settlement, from 1781 - county town

1.2. Zakamyshlovskaya village, parish of the Intercession Cathedral, since 1851.

1.7. Nasonova village, parish of the Intercession Cathedral

2.1. Kamensky plant, parish of the Holy Trinity Church, founded in 1701; from 1935 - Kamensk (from 1940 - Kamensk-Uralsky)

2.3. Krasnogorsk village, parish of the Holy Trinity Church, also known as the village of Srednyaya, Krasnaya Gora (1869)

2.4. Novozavodskaya village, parish of the Holy Trinity Church, original site of construction of the Kamensky plant (Upper Kamensky plants - 1745)

2.6. Volkova village, parish of the Holy Trinity Church, from 1848 -

3.1. Travyanskoye village, parish of the Church of the Presentation, until 1750 - Travyanskaya village

3.4. Suvorskaya village, parish of the Vvedenskaya Church, Suvorkova village (1745), Suvory village (1904), later village (1956)

4.1. Kolchedanskaya Sloboda, parish of the Sretenskaya Church, from 1673 - Novo-Kolchedansky (later Kolchedansky) fort, from 1795 - Kolchedanskaya Sloboda, then the village

4.2. Gryaznukha village, parish of the Sretenskaya Church, Malaya Gryaznukha village (until 1974), Novoisetskoe village

4.7. Klyuchevskaya village, parish of the Sretenskaya Church, village of Klyuchi (1695), from 1860 -

5.2. Borovaya village, parish of the Church of the Epiphany, village of Martyusheva (1695, 1705), village of Borovskaya (Borova), from 1869 -

6.1. Kataysky fort, parish of the Trinity Church, village of Katayka (1695), village of Troitskoye (1719), Kataysko-Troitskoye (1869)

8.1. Zyryanskaya settlement, parish of the Sergius Church, Zyryanskaya village (1719), village - no later than 1733

8.6. Marai village, parish of St. Sergius Church

9.1. Pirogovskoye village, parish of the Floro-Lavra Church, village of Pirogov (1719), since 1751 - village

12.1. Shcherbakovskaya Sloboda, parish of the St. Nicholas Church, village of Nikolaevskoe Shcherbakovo (1719)

14.1. Krestovskaya Sloboda, parish of the Ascension Church, Trestovka village (1695), Bolshaya Trestovka (1719), from 1752 - Krestovskoye village

15.1. Tamakulskaya Sloboda, parish of St. George's Church

15.6. Paderina village, parish of St. George's Church

16.1. Temnovskoe village, parish of the Ascension Church, Temnaya village (1680), Temenskoe village (Temnoe, Temnovskoe), 1869, from 1961 - Razdolnoe village

17.1. Skatinskaya Sloboda, parish of St. Nicholas Church

18.1. Chetkarinskoye village, parish of the Baptist Church, Chetkarina village (1719), from 1766 - Chetkarinskoye village, Chotkarinskoye village (1923), Chetkarino (1928)

19.1. Krasnoyarsk Sloboda, parish of the Vvedenskaya Church, Krasnoyarka village (1956, 1975)

20.1. Pyshminskaya Sloboda, parish of the Epiphany Church, Oshchepkova Pyshminskaya Sloboda (since 1646), village of Pyshminskoye (1869), Pyshminskoye (Oshchepkovo), 1908, 1923

20.2. Kochevka village, parish of the Epiphany Church Yurmytskoye village, Mikitushkina village (1710), aka Nikitina, from 1747 - Troitskoye village

33.1. Kalinovskaya Sloboda, parish of the Nativity Church

37.1. Znamenskaya Sloboda, parish of the Znamenskaya Church, Znamensky Pogost (1719), Kokuy (until 1791)

37.2. Shatskaya village, parish of the Znamenskaya Church

38.1. Prokopyevskaya Sloboda, parish of the Prokopyevskaya Church, the village of Kunyarskaya (1710), Kunarskaya (1719), from 1735 - the village of Prokopyevskoye, also known as Kunara (1869), Kunarskoye (1902)

43.1. Ilyinskaya Sloboda, parish of the Prophet-Ilyinsky Church, Latysheva village (1710), Ilyinskoye village (1719)

The text is quoted from the book by Alexey Gennadievich Mosin “Dictionary of Ural Surnames”, publishing house “Ekaterinburg”, 2000. All copyrights reserved. When quoting the text and using it in publications, a link is required.

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The process of forming surnames in Rus' was a long one. It’s hard to believe now, but back in the 17th century, not everyone had them. For example, surnames for the clergy appeared only in the 19th century, and everyone else acquired family names only at the beginning of the 20th century.

Many surnames came from worldly pre-Christian names (Baranov, Bolshakov), from calendar church names (Ivanov, Mikhailov), in peasant environment generic names were common, which were given by the name of the profession (Bondarev, Melnikov, Kuznetsov). The article will discuss the history of the Popov surname, its origin and distribution. So, in order.

Origin of the surname

Popov is a very common surname in Russia and Bulgaria. How did she appear? According to one version of the origin of the Popov surname, it is derived from the word “pop” (from the Greek “papas”, which means “father”). Pop is an outdated colloquial nickname Orthodox priest. This is where the surnames came from: Popov, Popadyin, Poptsov, Raspopov, Popovsky, Popadeikin and others.

The nickname was first assigned to the clergyman. Then his children were called “priest’s son”; over time, “son” or “grandson” was dropped from speech.

According to the second version of the origin of the Popov surname, there was such a name in Rus' - Pop. They named children during the period of development and spread of the Slavic custom of dual names (when, along with the baptismal name, the child was given another one - a worldly one - in order to hide it true name from evil spirits and evil spirits). By naming the child this name, parents believed that they were thereby bringing their child closer to God and taking all misfortunes and sorrows away from him.

The first information about the generic name Popov

Since this is one of the ancient church titles (priests began to be called this immediately after the adoption of Christianity), the first written mentions of priests are found already in the 11th century in the “Canticles of the Prophets.” “Pop” appeared as a proper name a little later. It was first found in the 15th century in the Census Books. For example: Popko Nikita, 1490, peasant, Novgorod.

The surname Popov became most widespread in the North of Russia. For example, in the Arkhangelsk province in 1897 there were 20 Popovs per thousand people. In 1964, 30 thousand Popovs lived in the capital.

Such high degree The prevalence of the surname is due to the fact that in the North, priests were chosen by the people themselves from among themselves.

TO XVII century Popovs populate southern regions Russia.

It should be noted that the surname is absent among the Western Slavs, but is quite common among the Bulgarians.

Morphological meaning of the surname Popov

Like all Russian surnames, it is easy to pronounce, declined according to cases, and in female version ending (a) is added.

Initially, the stress was placed on the first syllable, but then this pronunciation took on an offensive connotation (as a derivative of the back point of a person), so the bearers of this generic name themselves initiated the transfer of stress to the second syllable. This is how the modern pronunciation of the surname appeared.

Popov Alexander Stepanovich

One of the most famous bearers of this surname is Popov A.S. This is a famous Russian physicist, inventor of radio communications, creator of the first radio receiver. Born into the family of a clergyman in a small Ural village. He received his first education at religious school, then studied at the Perm Theological Seminary and St. Petersburg University. The years were difficult, there was always a shortage of funds, he had to combine work with studies. During these years, he became interested in physics, which he began teaching after graduating from university. From 1901 he became a professor at the Institute of Electrical Engineering in St. Petersburg, and a little later its rector. But the true passion of Alexander Stepanovich Popov was experiments, to which he devoted all his free time. In 1895, he created a radio receiver, and three years later he began conducting his radiotelegraphic experiments on ships.

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This is such a famous and widespread surname, the exact place and time of its appearance is unknown. Unknown and exact origin surname Popov, but it is known for sure that it belongs to the number of ancient Russian surnames and traces its history back to the time of the spread of Christianity in Rus'.

For our centuries-old history much was forgotten, lost ancient customs and traditions, our language has changed, our culture has changed. And it is very important for subsequent generations to preserve the memory of the origin of surnames, many of which are monuments of Slavic traditions and customs.

Archive of surnames Popov. Origin of the surname Popov. Where did the surname Popov come from? What does the name Popov mean? History of the origin of the Popov surname? What information does the surname store about the Popov’s ancestors?

The meaning and origin of the surname Popov.

Popov. Version 1.

Popov. Not all Popovs and Popkovs are descendants of priests. As a personal name, Pop (Popko) was very common among worldly people.

Popov. Version 2.

The basis of the surname Popov was the secular name of the ancestor Pop. This naming was added by the child's parents to the name he received at baptism. This name was used more often than a baptismal name and was assigned to a person for life.

The presence of a second, worldly name was a kind of tribute to the ancient Slavic tradition dual names. Her goal was to hide the main thing, church name from “evil spirits” and “evil spirits”.

The surname Popov is one of the most common Russian family names. It is included in the top ten in terms of use, ranking ninth in the list of most popular surnames. This surname could go back not only to the common noun “pop,” but also to the non-Christian personal name Pop, which was very common in the past, from which the possessive “priest” was formed. This name, in turn, was used both to designate the son of a priest or the son of a man named Pop, and to name a priest’s worker, a farm laborer.

This one of the oldest church titles began to be used in Russia almost immediately after the adoption of Christianity and was first mentioned back in 1047 in the “Canticles of the Prophets.” The personal name Pop appeared much later; its first recording dates back to the 15th century: Nikita Popko, peasant 1495, Novgorod; Popko, farmer, 1400; Ofonasiy Pop, peasant, 1495; Zhdan Popka, Mozyr boyar man, 1552; Pop Fedor Ivanovich, Sverchkov, Saburov, first half of the 16th century; Ofonka Larionov's son nicknamed Pop, village resident on the Don, 1684, and many others.

The surname Popov is especially common in the Russian North. A count of surnames in the Arkhangelsk province (for 1897) showed an unprecedentedly high frequency - 20 Popovs per thousand people. In Moscow (1964) – 30 thousand Popovs. As a reason for the prevalence of this surname in the north of Russia, one can assume the election of the clergy in these areas: until the 18th century, priests were not appointed there, but were elected by the residents themselves from among themselves. In the 17th century, this surname “populated” the steppes south of Tula and Ryazan, the Don and the Lower Volga region. It is absent in the western regions and in Western Slavs, but is very common among Bulgarians.

Among the illustrious bearers of this surname is Popov Alexander Stepanovich (1859–1905/06) - Russian physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of electrical communication without wires (radio communication), creator of the world's first radio receiver and device for recording lightning discharges.

Since the process of forming surnames was quite long, it is currently difficult to talk about the exact place and time of the origin of the generic name Popov. However, we can say with confidence that it belongs to the oldest Russian family names.

Popov. Version 3.

The surname Popov has become widespread among Belarusians and Russians and has several main versions of its origin. According to Christian theory, the base word in this surname is peasant name Pop, which was the name given to children in religious families or families of clergy. Over time, the surname Popov began to be borne by people who did not belong to this occupation. The most common related surnames are Popadeikin, Poptsov, Popkov, Popadyan, Raspopov, Popovsky. If the surname Popov meant one or another belonging to the clan of clergy (sons, grandsons of a priest), then the surname Raspopov had the opposite meaning - one who does not have a clergy title. It is believed that other names given to people at baptism could have served as the basis for the Popov surname. Including the names Poplius, Puplius or Publius, which come from the Roman name for the personal name “publius” (translated from Latin means “close to the people”, “public”, “state”, “public”, “national”). In the world, bearers of such names were called Pop for short, and over time the personal name was interpreted into a generic name, that is, into modern surname Popov.

Popov. Version 4.

The basis of the Popov surname was the secular name Pop. The surname Popov goes back to the personal name Pop, which was very common among worldly people. Religious parents willingly named their children these names. Initially, the surname Popov meant: 1) patronymic - “son of a priest”; 2) patronymic – “son of Pop”, from the nickname Pop; from documents of the 15th-17th centuries: peasant Senka Pop, Don Cossack Mikhailo Pop, etc.; 3) a worker at the priest's - Popov's worker. Despite the variety of versions of the origin of this surname, the first hypothesis seems to be the most plausible. Pop, over time received the surname Popov. Popov.

Popov. Version 5.

Popov. Version 6.