Pàpa

surname · Latin script

Pàpa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Staffs. see Pape .

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 12K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 18K

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.

United States (measured from records)

6,005 people, 2010

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Papa in 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)

Main GB Location (1881): Staffs. see Pape .

Sources 8

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pàpa 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 Pàpa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6,0051 in 55K6KPapa19
BR Brazil5,6121 in 38K5.6K—1
AR Argentina1,7111 in 27K1.7K——
CH Switzerland4731 in 18K473—1
HR Croatia3441 in 12K344——
UY Uruguay3051 in 11K305——

6,005 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Pàpa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Papa, Paepae, Papà, Papá, Pápa

  • Romanian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Italy, United States, Philippines

    Also written Papa, Papă, Papä, Pápa, Păpă

  • Indonesian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, India, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Papa, Papà, Pàpà, Pâpâ, Papą

  • Greek surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, Philippines, Cyprus

    Also written Papa, Παπα, Παπά, Πάπα, Papá

4 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pàpa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pàpa mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Staffs. see Pape . Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 6 other sources.
In which country does Pàpa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Pàpa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled papa.
Where is Pàpa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pàpa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pàpa?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,005 people named Pàpa in 2010, about 1 in 55 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, “Pàpa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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