Kępa

surname · Latin script

Meaning: isolated clump of vegetation, such as trees, shrubs, or flowers

/kɛmpa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kępa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 18K
  • PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 97K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

7,931 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
66 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KępaLatin(measured from records)
КепаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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(measured from records)

isolated clump of vegetation, such as trees, shrubs, or flowers

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kępa 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.

Where Kępa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland7,9311 in 4.8K4KKępa62
IN India≈280 est.≈1 in 4.7M1——
US United States2161 in 1.5M216—66
SI Slovenia1201 in 18K120—1
FR France≈80 est.≈1 in 851K11Kępa2
PG Papua New Guinea≈75 est.≈1 in 97K7—3
NO Norway421 in 130K42—6
FI Finland321 in 174K32——

7,931 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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 living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kępa is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Kepa

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Kēpa, Kepa

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Kepa, Képa

  • Hindi name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Kepa

  • Indonesian name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Kepa

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Józef Kępa, b. 1928Jan Kępa, b. 1928Gérard Kepa, b. 1946Marek Kępa, b. 1959Barbara Bilińska-Kępa, b. 1967

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSzanowni Państwo,Dear Kępa, (English)
InformalSzanowni Państwo,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Kępa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4K#531
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4K#546

Reference works 5

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

What does the name Kępa mean, and where does it come from?
isolated clump of vegetation, such as trees, shrubs, or flowers Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Kępa?
A machine transcription gives /kɛmpa/ (IPA) for Polish.
In which country does Kępa have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Kępa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kępa.
Where is Kępa most common?
Kępa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kępa?
In Poland, the national register counted 7,931 people named Kępa in 2026, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.

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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, “Kępa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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