Nappé

surname · Latin script

Meaning: past participle of napper

Nappé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 734K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M
  • FRFrance≈1 in 3.4M

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)

174 people, 2010

Sources
58 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 734K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nappe in FR France, US United States.

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)

past participle of napper

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nappé 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.

Where Nappé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1741 in 1.9M188Nappe13
AR Argentina621 in 734K62——
BR Brazil481 in 4.4M48——
FR France≈20 est.≈1 in 3.4M15Nappe58
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7—1

174 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nappé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nappé mean, and where does it come from?
past participle of napper Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Nappé have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 174 people named Nappé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nappe.
Where is Nappé most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nappé is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 734 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nappé?
In the United States, the national register counted 174 people named Nappé in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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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, “Nappé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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