Japie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of yarpie
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒpi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Japie is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in South Africa.
- ZASouth Africa
- NLNetherlands
- 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)
Alternative form of yarpie.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
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)
Japie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Afrikaans, bumpkin, clodhopper, hick
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)
- Japie Louwb. 1867ZASouth African rugby union footballer (1867-1936)
- Japie Krigeb. 1879ZASouth African rugby union player (1879–1961)
- Japie van Zylb. 1957NADirector for Solar System Exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Japie Mulderb. 1969ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Japie Motaleb. 1979ZAfootballer
- Japie Nelb. 1982ZASouth African rugby union footballer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 25 | #10,206 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 16 | #22,173 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 12 | #20,060 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 10 | #28,743 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #28 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Japie mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of yarpie. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Japie?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒpi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Japie a male or female name?
- Japie is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Japie have the most bearers?
- Japie is most frequently recorded in South Africa.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/japieThe 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, “Japie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.