Lipai

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/lipaj/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated

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Lipai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Lipai is also written Липай in Cyrillic.

  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 1.7M
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 29Kfew recordsas Липай

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 Lipai itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈480 named Липай, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
93 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Lipai in other scripts: Cyrillic

(measured from records)
LipaiLatin(measured from records)
ЛипайLipai in Cyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Липай in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 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.

How to pronounce Lipai

  • Portuguese:/lipaj/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Swahili:/lipai/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where the surname Lipai is found

(measured from records)

Lipai 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 Lipai is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia≈480 est.≈1 in 302K—Липай93
BY Belarus≈320 est.≈1 in 29K2Липай15
UA Ukraine≈200 est.≈1 in 189K—Липай16
KZ Kazakhstan≈44 est.≈1 in 466K—Липай18
SI Slovenia27as Lipaj1 in 78K27——
PL Poland221 in 1.7M12—1
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6——

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: Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Lipai is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Lipaï, Lipaî

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Lipaĭ

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, India

    Also written Lipa-I

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lipaĭ

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Ms Lipai,
InformalHi Lipai,

Evidence

(measured from records)

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Lipai?
It depends on the language: in Portuguese /lipaj/; in Swahili /lipai/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Lipai?
Mondonomo estimates about 475 people named Липай in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Slovenia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Lipai most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lipai is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.4 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lipai?
In Poland, the national register counted 22 people named Lipai in 2026, about 1 in 1.7 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, “Lipai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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