Appa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑpə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Appa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 97K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 212K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 398K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
Where in the world(measured from records)
Appa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Appa | 29 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 3 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Appa | 7 |
| US United States | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | listed | Appa | 71 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 909K | — | Appa | 9 |
| SG Singapore | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Appa | 4 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Appa | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Appa | 3 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 16 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Appa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, few, a small amount
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kl, murre, guillemot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dra-pro, father
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #23,536 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #34,381 |
Reference works 1
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Appa?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑpə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Appa a male or female name?
- Appa is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Appa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 177 people named Appa in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled appa.
- How common is the name Appa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Appa in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
What do you want to know about Appa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/appaThe 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, “Appa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.