Zapáta
surname · Latin script
Zapáta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From zapato (“shoe”).
- COColombia≈1 in 394(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 525
- NINicaragua≈1 in 551
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- #716 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 395 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 394 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zapata in PE Peru, AR Argentina, CO Colombia and 3 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)
From zapato (“shoe”).
Sources 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zapáta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #46 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 394 | 87 | Zapata | 207 |
| PE Peru | #70 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 525 | — | Zapata | 124 |
| AR Argentina | #145 | 49,660 | 1 in 916 | 50K | Zapata | 110 |
| VE Venezuela | #146 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 775 | — | Zapata | 68 |
| US United States | — | 32,274 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Zapata | 395 |
| NI Nicaragua | #74 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 551 | — | Zapata | 51 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 4,419 | 1 in 767 | 4.4K | — | 47 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zapáta mean, and where does it come from?
- From zapato (“shoe”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Zapáta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 125 thousand people named Zapáta in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zapata.
- How common is the name Zapáta?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 49,660 people named Zapáta, about 1 in 916 residents.
- How common is Zapáta compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Zapáta is the 46th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zapáta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zap%C3%A1taThe 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, “Zapáta” — the 46th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.