Kępa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: isolated clump of vegetation, such as trees, shrubs, or flowers (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈkɛm.pa/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Kępa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 7,931 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Kępa is also written Кепа in Cyrillic.
- PLPoland1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 18K
- NONorway1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kępa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
7,931 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kępa in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Kępa
- Polish:/ˈkɛm.pa/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)isolated clump of vegetation, such as trees, shrubs, or flowers
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kępa is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 7,931 | 1 in 4.8K | 4K | Kępa | 62 |
| IN India | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | 216 | 1 in 1.5M | 216 | — | 66 |
| SI Slovenia | 120 | 1 in 18K | 120 | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 857K | 11 | Kępa | 2 |
| NO Norway | 42 | 1 in 130K | 42 | — | 6 |
| FI Finland | 32 | 1 in 174K | 32 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 158K | listed | — | 1 |
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); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Józef Kępab. 1928PLPolish politician, historian, and communist activist
- Henryk KępaPLPolish physicist
- Małgorzata KępaPLresearcher
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)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
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?
- In Polish /ˈkɛm.pa/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kępa?
- 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. After it come India, United States, Slovenia and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C4%99paThe 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, “Kępa” — ranked 531st in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.