Cupid
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cupid is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In St. Vincent & Grenadines it is the 50th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and English (St. Vincent & Grenadines), written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The god of love, son of Venus; sometimes depicted as a putto (a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow).
- USUnited States1 in 887K◐
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 367
- TTTrinidad & Tobago1 in 50K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈654 ●
- Sources
- 116 ●
- 1 in 367 ◐
across 3 countries
3.7K records
Official registry-verified
St. Vincent & Grenadines
Meaning & origin●
The god of love, son of Venus; sometimes depicted as a putto (a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow). The Roman counterpart of Eros.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 375 | 3.1K rec. | 1 in 887K | 432 | Cupid | 116 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | #50 | 276△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 367 | 276 | Cupid | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 186 | 168 rec. | — | — | Cupid | 40 |
| AU Australia | — | 132 | 141 rec. | — | — | Cupid | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | 77 | 75 rec. | — | — | Cupid | 26 |
| JM Jamaica | — | 57 | 60 rec. | — | — | Cupid | 1 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | — | 29 | 27 rec. | — | — | Cupid | 13 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 15 | 11 rec. | — | — | Cupid | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | listed | Cupid | 4 |
| AO Angola | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Cupid | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | — | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | — | 3 rec. | — | 3 | — | 2 |
Roughly 375 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 887K). 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●
- English3.2K79%
- English (St. Vincent & Grenadines)1163%
- English (Trinidad & Tobago)1083%
- 1063%
- Spanish1022%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 3,234 | 79% |
| English (St. Vincent & Grenadines) | 116 | 3% |
| English (Trinidad & Tobago) | 108 | 3% |
| 106 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 102 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Cupid is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Roman god of love
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Roman god of love; son of Venus
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In Turkish, Cupid (Roman god)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, greedy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, CUPÍD, -Ă, cupizi, -de, adj. (Livr.) Apucător, avid de câștig; lacom, hrăpăreț.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Benjamin Cupidb. 1988GBFootballer (born 1988)
- Eden CupidCACanadian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 432 | #51,968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 375 | #54,864 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 276 | #69 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 274 | #67,317 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #591 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #623 |
| BB Barbados | Barbados — Electoral register (deceased + overseas slices) | 2025 | 1 | #36 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Cupid?
- We estimate roughly 654 people bear Cupid (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Cupid have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 375 people bear Cupid in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled cupid.
- Where is Cupid most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cupid is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 367 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Cupid compared with other names?
- In St. Vincent & Grenadines, Cupid is the 50th most common surname of 1,182 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Cupid mean?
- Recorded meaning: The god of love, son of Venus; sometimes depicted as a putto (a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow).
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cupid” — the 50th most common surname in St. Vincent & Grenadines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.