Lípa
org · Latin script
Meaning: lime, linden, basswood (a deciduous tree of the genus Tilia)
Lípa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 14K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 44K
- FIFinland1 in 265K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
2,748 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lipa in PL Poland, 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(measured from records)
lime, linden, basswood (a deciduous tree of the genus Tilia)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lípa 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 | 2,748 | 1 in 14K | 1.4K | Lipa | 70 |
| US United States | 539 | 1 in 617K | 804 | Lipa | 32 |
| BR Brazil | 281 | 1 in 753K | 281 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 241 | 1 in 44K | 241 | Lípa | 18 |
| AR Argentina | 81 | 1 in 561K | 81 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 21 | 1 in 265K | 21 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 15 | 1 in 364K | 15 | — | — |
2,748 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Lípa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, lime-tree
as a nameRussian Surnames
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)
- Jaroslav Lípab. 1886CZCzechoslovak diplomat (1886-1966)
- Libor Lípab. 1963CZCzech visual artist (born 1963)
- Radek Lípab. 1979CZCzech regional politician
- Ondřej Lípab. 1981CZCzech presenter
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 241 | #6,948 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 241 | #5,075 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Lípa mean, and where does it come from?
- lime, linden, basswood (a deciduous tree of the genus Tilia) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lípa have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Lípa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lipa.
- Where is Lípa most common?
- Lípa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lípa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,748 people named Lípa in 2026, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%ADpaThe 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, “Lípa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.