Papás

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Papás is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 85K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 260K
  • SESweden1 in 510K

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)

1,279 people, 2010

Sources
56 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

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 Papas in US United States, BR Brazil.

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)

recorded in Lithuanian

Plg. Papys (žr.), toliau plg. lat. Pape, Pape (LAG 133, 138, 146), vok. Paape, Pape < nd. pape, ndrh. paffe „šventikas4 * (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 463). Vienu kitu atveju galbūt pravardinė iš liet. papas „krūtis; spenys; čiulptukas, žindukas; dusulys4 * (LKŽ IX 350). Žr. dar Z. Zinkevičius, 1977, p. 180). PAPAURfiLIS Tršk — žr. Papaūrėlis

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Papás 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 Papás is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,2791 in 260K1.3KPapas56
BR Brazil1011 in 2.1M101Papas17
NO Norway641 in 85K64—2
PL Poland211 in 1.8M14——
SE Sweden201 in 510K20—1
BE Belgium191 in 617K19—1
CH Switzerland121 in 700K12—1

1,279 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Papás is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Philippines, Greece

    Languages: English, Greek, German

    Also written Papas, Papa'S, Παπας, Παπάς, Πάπας

  • Thai given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Papat, ปภัสร, Paphat, ปภสร, ปภัช

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Philippines, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Papas

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 Papás 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

In which country does Papás have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Papás, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled papas.
Where is Papás most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Papás is densest in Norway — about 1 in 85 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Papás?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,279 people named Papás in 2010, about 1 in 260 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, “Papás”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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