In the world, Popescu (Popescu 
, Попеску 
, פופסקו 
) is quite a common epicene given name. The first name Popescu is habitual in Romania, where it is quite a common unisex name, Albania, where it is quite a rare masculine name, and Botswana. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in Romania, Italy, and Moldova. More prevalently, Popescu is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Popescu | Romania, Moldova, Germany, Italy, United States |
| Попеску | Romania, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia |
| פופסקו | Israel |
Popescu is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Попеску , character in Swabian women.
| radu popescu Romanian historian (b. 1655) |
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| spiridon popescu Romanian prose writer (1864-1933), RO (b. 1864) |
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horea popescu Romanian stage director, RO (b. 1925) |
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| niculae m. popescu Romanian historian, RO (b. 1881) |
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| cosma marin popescu (b. 1887) |
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sandu popescu British physicist, GB (b. 1956) |
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| stere popescu Romanian choreographer (1920-1968), RO (b. 1920) |
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| tudor radu popescu RO (b. 1913) |
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| tudor popescu Romanian writer (1930-1999), RO (b. 1930) |
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| dragu teodor popescu (b. 1928) |
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| petre popescu (b. 1928) |
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| șerban horia popescu (b. 1937) |
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| toma popescu Romanian singer (1954-2014), RO (b. 1954) |
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| marin popescu Romanian canoeist, RO (b. 1973) |
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| bogdan popescu Romanian basketball player, RO (b. 1978) |
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