Thâpâ
surname · Latin script
Thâpâ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 60,802 people, counted by Instate. Recorded meaning: From Nepali थापा (thāpā).
- FIFinland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 11K
- NONorway1 in 14K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
60,802 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Thapa in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia.
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)From Nepali थापा (thāpā).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Thâpâ is found
(measured from records)Thâpâ 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.
60,802 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Thâpâ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Nepali थापा (thāpā). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Thâpâ?
- In India, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named Thâpâ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thapa. After it come United States, Poland, Denmark and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Thâpâ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thâpâ is densest in Finland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Thâpâ?
- In India, the national register counted 60,802 people named Thâpâ, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Thâpâ compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Thâpâ is the 922nd most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/th%C3%A2p%C3%A2The 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, “Thâpâ” — ranked 264th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.