Gopa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: herdsman; guardian; protector of cows
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡoʊpə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gopa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 6.8Kas Gop(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 39Kas Gopi
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gopa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2M (inferred from the name graph)
193,979 named Gop
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gopi in MY Malaysia, SG Singapore, PK Pakistan and 1 more and Gope in IN India, BD Bangladesh, KW Kuwait.
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)
herdsman; guardian; protector of cows. Ichnocarpus frutescens.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gopa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #383 | 193,979as Gop | 1 in 6.8K | 194K | Gope | 204 |
| BD Bangladesh | #720 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Gope | 26 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Gopi | 31 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,134as Kopa | 1 in 34K | 584 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Gopi | 36 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gope | 4 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Gopi | 26 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Gopi | 10 |
193,979 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling gop. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gopa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Balarama (N); GaneSa (N); Harihara (N); Kala
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Gomata (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Azerbaijani, dative singular of gop
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, kukolj, agrostemma githago L.
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Gopa come from?
- herdsman; guardian; protector of cows. Ichnocarpus frutescens. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Gopa?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoʊpə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Gopa mean?
- Recorded meaning: herdsman; guardian; protector of cows.
- Is Gopa a male or female name?
- Gopa is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gopa have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 194 thousand people named Gop, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gopa?
- In India, the national register counted 193,979 people named Gop, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Gopa compared with other names?
- In India, Gopa is the 383rd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gopa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gopaThe 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, “Gopa” — the 383rd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.