Tàpia

surname · Latin script

Tàpia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 100th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Probably of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“tap, plug”).

  • CLChile≈1 in 250(inferred from the name graph)
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 400few records
  • ECEcuador1 in 444

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈200,000 people, est.

#624 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

Record sources
397 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 247 (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

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 Tapia in MX Mexico, CL Chile, PE Peru and 4 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

(measured from records)

Probably of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“tap, plug”).

Cited for this meaning 4

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Tàpia is found

(measured from records)

Tàpia 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 Tàpia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#100≈200,000 est.≈1 in 6693.7KTapia229
CL Chile#31≈80,000 est.≈1 in 247—Tapia166
US United States—52,6511 in 6.3K53KTapia397
PE Peru#98≈46,000 est.≈1 in 747—Tapia118
AR Argentina#16143,4401 in 1K43KTapia110
EC Ecuador#4738,0951 in 44438KTapia96
BO Bolivia—≈31,000 est.≈1 in 402—Tapia71

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names. 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)

Tàpia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname19 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tapia, Tápia, Ťapįa, Tapía, Täpïä

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Tapia, Tapià, Tapía, Tápia

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Philippines, United States, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Tapia

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Peru, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Tapia, Ťäpîâ

  • Burmese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Philippines

    Also written Tapia

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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Tàpia 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 Catalan, enclosing wall

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tàpia mean, and where does it come from?
Probably of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“tap, plug”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 2 other sources.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Tàpia?
Mondonomo estimates about 196 thousand people named Tàpia in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tapia. After it come Chile, United States, Peru and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Tàpia?
In the United States, the national register counted 52,651 people named Tàpia in 2010, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
How common is Tàpia compared with other names?
In Mexico, Tàpia is the 100th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Tàpia” — ranked 102nd in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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