The word popularize is a verb not a noun; to make someone or something popular: popularize, popularizes, popularizing, popularized.
The noun forms for the verb are popularization, popularizer, and the gerund, popularizing.
surfing
popularize Yiddish
Arches!
Marches
Mary Cassatt was the American impressionist whose work did much to popularize that artistic style in North America.
They helped to popularize the genre and have innovated it.
the mullet.
mambo
hula hoops.
Eddie Boy
Grimy Lopez
Tupac