Kepa
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kepa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Coined by Sabino Arana in the 19th century, from Aramaic כֵּיפָא (kēp̄ā, “stone, rock”).
- PLPoland1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 18K
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 97K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
7,931 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kępa in PL Poland, FR France.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Coined by Sabino Arana in the 19th century, from Aramaic כֵּיפָא (kēp̄ā, “stone, rock”).
Sources 2
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kepa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 7,931 | 1 in 4.8K | 4K | Kępa | 62 |
| IN India | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | 216 | 1 in 1.5M | 216 | — | 66 |
| SI Slovenia | 120 | 1 in 18K | 120 | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 851K | 11 | Kępa | 2 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 7 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | 42 | 1 in 130K | 42 | — | 6 |
| FI Finland | 32 | 1 in 174K | 32 | — | — |
7,931 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Kepa is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Basque equivalent of PETER , taken directly from the Aramaic form Kephas .
as a word
In Swedish, synonym of keps (“cap with bill or peak”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, Gheg form of qepa (“the onion(s)”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In agn, the fine chaff left after milling rice grain (it is usually fed to pigs)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Basque, a male given name, equivalent to English Peter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In goh, alternative form of gëba
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)
- Kepa Hāmuera Ānaha Ehaub. 1885NZNgati Tarawhai and Ngati Whakaue leader, law clerk, interpreter, soldier, historian, orator (1885-1970)
- Kepa Amuchásteguib. 1941COColombian actor
- Kepa Aulestiab. 1956ESSpanish writer and politician
- Kepa Altonagab. 1958ESBasque teacher, writer, biologist, zoologist
- Kepa Gallegob. 1960ESBasque writer
- Kepa Junkerab. 1965ESBasque musician
- Kepa Blancob. 1984ESSpanish footballer
- Kepa Arrizabalagab. 1994ESSpanish footballer (born 1994)
- Kepa Urcelay GoitiaESSpanish politician
- Mere KepaNZeducational researcher in New Zealand
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 216 | #86,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 210 | #93,627 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 166 | #100,663 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 120 | #3,742 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #28,847 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 32 | #33,041 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #134,159 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kepa mean, and where does it come from?
- Coined by Sabino Arana in the 19th century, from Aramaic כֵּיפָא (kēp̄ā, “stone, rock”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Kepa have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Kepa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kępa.
- Where is Kepa most common?
- Kepa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kepa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7,931 people named Kepa in 2026, about 1 in 4.8 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/kepaThe 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, “Kepa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.