Àkpan
surname · Latin script
Àkpan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nigeria it is the 13th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 454K(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 16M
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 222 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
732 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Akpan in NG Nigeria, US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Àkpan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 732 | 1 in 454K | 978 | Akpan | 222 |
| FI Finland | — | 34 | 1 in 164K | 34 | — | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 25 | 1 in 408K | 25 | — | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 20 | — | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 18 | 1 in 2.1M | 12 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | #13 | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Akpan | 118 |
| GY Guyana | — | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
732 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Àkpan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 732 people named Àkpan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akpan.
- Where is Àkpan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Àkpan is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Àkpan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 732 people named Àkpan in 2010, about 1 in 454 thousand residents.
- How common is Àkpan compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Àkpan is the 13th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Àkpan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A0kpanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Àkpan” — the 13th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.