Papal name

Quality:

Papal name - the regnal name taken by the head of the Catholic Church. Article “Papal name” in Simple English Wikipedia has 31.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Papal name”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 905 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 31 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3964 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #202 in March 2013
• Global: #237 in May 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2682 in May 2025
• Global: #403 in May 2025

There are 22 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Papstname		54.8245
2	French (fr) Nom de règne des papes		52.3476
3	Russian (ru) Имена римских пап		47.5395
4	Chinese (zh) 教宗名號		39.9062
5	Italian (it) Nome pontificale		35.6375
6	Turkish (tr) Papa adları		33.3322
7	Polish (pl) Imię papieskie		32.4581
8	Simple English (simple) Papal name		31.3466
9	English (en) Papal name		31.1865
10	Lithuanian (lt) Popiežiaus vardas		27.3821

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Papal name		1 861 905
2	Spanish (es) Nombre papal		691 357
3	German (de) Papstname		586 050
4	French (fr) Nom de règne des papes		458 041
5	Russian (ru) Имена римских пап		342 832
6	Italian (it) Nome pontificale		325 256
7	Portuguese (pt) Nome papal		102 755
8	Indonesian (id) Nama Paus		24 059
9	Slovenian (sl) Papeško ime		21 396
10	Czech (cs) Papežské jméno		11 629

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Papal name		6 950
2	Spanish (es) Nombre papal		2 480
3	German (de) Papstname		964
4	French (fr) Nom de règne des papes		725
5	Italian (it) Nome pontificale		516
6	Russian (ru) Имена римских пап		513
7	Indonesian (id) Nama Paus		369
8	Portuguese (pt) Nome papal		347
9	Polish (pl) Imię papieskie		248
10	Chinese (zh) 教宗名號		231

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Nom de règne des papes		187
2	English (en) Papal name		175
3	German (de) Papstname		173
4	Italian (it) Nome pontificale		132
5	Spanish (es) Nombre papal		70
6	Russian (ru) Имена римских пап		53
7	Latin (la) Nomen pontificale		22
8	Portuguese (pt) Nome papal		16
9	Czech (cs) Papežské jméno		11
10	Indonesian (id) Nama Paus		10

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Polish (pl) Imię papieskie		2
2	Portuguese (pt) Nome papal		2
3	Arabic (ar) اسم بابوي		1
4	Czech (cs) Papežské jméno		1
5	English (en) Papal name		1
6	Spanish (es) Nombre papal		1
7	Indonesian (id) Nama Paus		1
8	Catalan (ca) Nom papal		0
9	German (de) Papstname		0
10	French (fr) Nom de règne des papes		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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