Zapién
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Zapién is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 101K(measured from records)
- CUCuba≈1 in 13K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 119K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
3,298 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Cuba, 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 Zapien in US United States, SV El Salvador, CA Canada 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zapién 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 | — | 3,298 | 1 in 101K | 3.3K | Zapien | 151 |
| CU Cuba | #597 | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Zapien | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Zapien | 7 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 445K | — | Zapien | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 391K | — | Zapien | 3 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Zapien | 7 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Zapien | 5 |
3,298 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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tarsicio Herrera Zapiénb. 1935MXMexican writer, researcher and academic
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
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Zapién have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Zapién, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zapien.
- How common is the name Zapién?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,298 people named Zapién in 2010, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
- How common is Zapién compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Zapién is the 597th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zapién?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zapi%C3%A9nThe 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, “Zapién” — the 597th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.