Kepka

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kpkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kepka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 40K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 320K

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)

5,593 people, 2026

Sources
56 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kepka 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.

Where Kepka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland5,5931 in 6.8K2.9KKepka56
CZ Czechia2671 in 40K268Kepka25
US United States1951 in 1.7M206Kepka37
BR Brazil1031 in 2.1M103——
FR France≈62 est.≈1 in 1.1M5—1
SE Sweden191 in 537K19—2
SK Slovakia171 in 320K17Kepka2
HR Croatia131 in 325K13——

5,593 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling kępka. 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kepka is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Kępka

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kępka

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Kępka

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Kêpka, Kępka

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Kȩpka, Kępka

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kepka 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 Latvian, Žokejcepure; cepure ar nagu

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1850190019502000Karel Hugo Kepka, b. 1869Zdeněk Kepka, b. 1930Jaroslav Kepka, b. 1935Tomáš Kepka, b. 1948Ondřej Kepka, b. 1969J. P. Kepka, b. 1984Bára Kepková, b. 1995

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)

FormalDear Kepka,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Kepka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—268#4,752
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—267#6,244
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020206#95,069
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010195#93,921
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000195#88,461
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—103#61,986
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202662—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—62#42,621
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202654—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—54#47,592
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—19#26,724
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)199517—

Reference works 3

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

How do you pronounce Kepka?
A machine transcription gives /kpkə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kepka have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Kepka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kepka.
Where is Kepka most common?
Kepka is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kepka?
In Poland, the national register counted 5,593 people named Kepka in 2026, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.

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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, “Kepka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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