Golpe
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: hit, blow, strike
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡolpe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Golpe is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- ESSpain
- MXMexico
- PHPhilippines
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A roundel purpure (purple circular spot).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Golpe is read(measured from records)
Golpe is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish75%
hit, blow, strike
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English19%
A roundel purpure (purple circular spot).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Golpe 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 Portuguese, coup, hit, blow
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Portuguese, blow (act of striking or hitting)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, bump, knock, stroke, hit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, hit, blow, shot
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Salvador Golpe Varelab. 1850ESSpanish author (1850-1909)
- Sandra Golpeb. 1974ESSpanish journalist and television presenter
- Nicolás Golpeb. 1979UYUruguayan film director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 590 | #7,000 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 590 | #6,998 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 175 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 125 | #134,712 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 108 | #150,935 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 102 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Golpe come from?
- A roundel purpure (purple circular spot). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Golpe?
- In the etymology graph, CoUP is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Golpe?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡolpe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Golpe mean?
- In Spanish, hit, blow, strike
- In which country does Golpe have the most bearers?
- Golpe is most frequently recorded in Mexico.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golpeThe 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, “Golpe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.