Kipa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kipa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In English, recorded as Alternative spelling of kippah.
- RURussia≈1 in 199Kas Кипа(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 209Kas Кіпа
- HRCroatia1 in 68K
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 Kipa 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
2,471 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Кипа in RU Russia, IN India and Кіпа in UA Ukraine.
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)
Alternative spelling of kippah.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Kipa is read(measured from records)
Kipa is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kipa in Hindi.
- English19%
Alternative spelling of kippah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Polish15%
large basket
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kipa in Ukrainian.
- Swahili5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kipa in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kipa 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.
2,471 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling kipa. 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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Kipa 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.
In Russian, Kipa Okulov syn, peasant. 1539.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In lad, kippah (the cloth skullcap or yarmulke traditionally worn by male Jews)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, to turn aside, to turn from the direct path
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Māori, spur (horse prod attached to heel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.5K | #2,677 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 192 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 192 | #16,817 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 155 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 155 | #20,771 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 88 | #1,460 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 62 | #11,419 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 60 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 29 | #50,440 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/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
- What does the name Kipa mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative spelling of kippah. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kipa?
- In the etymology graph, Kipina, Kippa and Kippah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kipa have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Kipa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled кипа.
- Where is Kipa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kipa is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kipa?
- In India, the national register counted 2,471 people named Kipa, about 1 in 537 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kipaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kipa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.