Colpa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: colcothar used as a flux for silver
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kolpa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Colpa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 86K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 86K
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.5M
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
202 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Čolpa in BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
colcothar used as a flux for silver
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Colpa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 202 | 1 in 86K | 202 | Colpa | 16 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Čolpa | 3 |
| US United States | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 9M | listed | Colpa | 41 |
| AR Argentina | 29 | 1 in 1.6M | 29 | Colpa | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 26 | 1 in 8.1M | 26 | Colpa | 17 |
| CO Colombia | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Colpa | 13 |
| PE Peru | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Colpa | 14 |
202 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Colpa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, calf (of leg)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, fault
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 202 | #10,309 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 29 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26 | #164,002 |
| 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Colpa mean, and where does it come from?
- colcothar used as a flux for silver Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Colpa?
- A machine transcription gives /kolpa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Colpa have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 202 people named Colpa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colpa.
- Where is Colpa most common?
- Colpa is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 86 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Colpa?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 202 people named Colpa in 2007, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/colpaThe 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, “Colpa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.