Papalé
surname · Latin script
Papalé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 485 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 210K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 586K
- ARArgentina1 in 679K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 210K (inferred from the name graph)
485 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Papale in US United States, BE Belgium.
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Papalé is found
(measured from records)Papalé 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 485 | 1 in 686K | 487 | Papale | 12 |
| AR Argentina | 67 | 1 in 679K | 67 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 47 | 1 in 4.5M | 47 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 40 | 1 in 210K | 40 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 20 | 1 in 586K | 20 | Papale | 3 |
| ES Spain | 12 | 1 in 4.2M | 12 | — | — |
485 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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Papalé?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 485 people named Papalé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled papale. After it come Argentina, Brazil, Switzerland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Papalé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Papalé is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 210 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Papalé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 485 people named Papalé in 2010, about 1 in 686 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Papalé?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/papal%C3%A9The 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, “Papalé” — ranked 41995th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.