The meaning of Popescu. Romanian: patronymic, with the suffix -escu, of Pop or Popa. Some characteristic forenames: Romanian Nicolae, Radu, Bogdan, Dumitru, Florin, Gheorghe, Mihai, Mircea, Alexandru, Constantin, Petre, Sorin, Anca, Irena, Teofil. Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.