Karpin
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɝpɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karpin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 43Kas Карпин(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 160Kas Карпин
- FIFinland1 in 143K
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 Karpin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 143K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 named Карпин, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Карпин in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, FI Finland and 2 more.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karpin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Карпин | 25 |
| RU Russia | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Карпин | 110 |
| US United States | 106 | 1 in 3.1M | 140 | Karpin | 10 |
| BY Belarus | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Карпин | 11 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 608K | — | Карпин | 2 |
| FI Finland | 39 | 1 in 143K | 39 | Карпин | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 20 | Karpin | 4 |
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 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Karpin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, "(V-m), conjunto de tres o cuatro anzuelos unidos formando figura de ancla" A .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Latvian, Karpines, arī Matuļu muiža, kas atradās Rēzeknes apriņķa Kalupes pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aleksanteri Karpinb. 1883FIFinnish priest (1883–1969)
- Nina Karpinb. 1922FIFinnish poet (1922-2008)
- Michael Karpinb. 1945ILIsraeli journalist
- Leo Karpinb. 1946EEEstonian film director (1946-2014)
- Valeri Karpinb. 1969EEEstonian-Russian footballer and manager (born 1969)
- Andra Karpinb. 1979EEEstonian footballer (born 1979)
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 140 | #115,489 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 122 | #140,525 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 106 | #153,769 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 39 | #28,213 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 20 | #5,474 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 14 | #8,105 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Karpin?
- A machine transcription gives /kɝpɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Karpin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Карпин in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Karpin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karpin is densest in Finland — about 1 in 143 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karpin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 106 people named Karpin in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Karpin?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karpinThe 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, “Karpin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.