Kapia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The resin of the kauri tree from New Zealand, often in petrified form (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/kapja/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Kapia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 6 people, counted by SSB.
- NONorway1 in 911K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 5.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 911K (inferred from the name graph)
6 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kapia
- Spanish:/kapja/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swahili:/kapia/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Indonesian:/kapia/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The resin of the kauri tree from New Zealand, often in petrified form.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Kapia is found
(measured from records)Kapia 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.
6 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Kapia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, third-person singular present active subjunctive of kapiō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, partitive singular of kapi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, paddle
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In ofs, to buy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, pagaie
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)- Gaz Maweteb. 1991CDnot in their usual nameCongolese singer
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kapia mean, and where does it come from?
- The resin of the kauri tree from New Zealand, often in petrified form. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kapia?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /kapja/; in Swahili /kapia/; in Indonesian /kapia/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kapia?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 6 people named Kapia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kapia most common?
- Kapia is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 911 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kapia?
- In Norway, the national register counted 6 people named Kapia, about 1 in 911 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kapia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kapiaThe 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, “Kapia” — ranked 66506th in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.