Compa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: buddy
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kompa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Compa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 304K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 199K
- PLPoland1 in 242K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- 1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)
≈360 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
buddy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Compa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 304K | — | Compa | 20 |
| PL Poland | 158 | 1 in 242K | 88 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | Compa | 73 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 434K | — | Compa | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 34 | 1 in 1.3M | 34 | Compa | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | 17 | 1 in 199K | 17 | Compa | 3 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 723K | — | Compa | 6 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 88 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 88 | #33,102 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 70 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 70 | #38,834 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 34 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 17 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Compa mean, and where does it come from?
- buddy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Compa?
- A machine transcription gives /kompa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Compa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 359 people named Compa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled compa.
- Where is Compa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Compa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 199 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Compa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 158 people named Compa in 2026, about 1 in 242 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/compaThe 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, “Compa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.