Klapa
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A traditional form of a cappella singing in Dalmatia, Croatia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɫɑpə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Klapa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 89K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia≈1 in 332K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Klapa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
432 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Клапа in UA Ukraine.
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)
flap, lid
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Klapa is read(measured from records)
Klapa is one spelling over 4 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.
- English39%
A traditional form of a cappella singing in Dalmatia, Croatia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Polish29%
flap, lid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German9.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Klapa in German.
- Ukrainian8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Klapa in Ukrainian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Klapa 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 | 432 | 1 in 89K | 233 | Klapa | 30 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 875K | — | Клапа | 13 |
| US United States | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 9M | — | Klapa | 6 |
| CZ Czechia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Klapa | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Klapa | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
432 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Klapa 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 Swedish, alternative form of klappa (“to pet”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, group of mostly young people who often meet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, vokalni sastav; društvo
as a wordMatasović, Pronk, Ivšić, Brozović Rončević (eds.), Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika, sv. 1-2 (2016)
In Latvian, Alus kanna, kroga kanna, kanna ar vāku
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)
- Zbigniew Klapab. 1952PLPolish sportsperson and athletics competitor
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 233 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 233 | #13,968 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 199 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 199 | #16,518 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Klapa come from?
- flap, lid Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Klapa?
- A machine transcription gives /kɫɑpə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Klapa mean?
- In English, A traditional form of a cappella singing in Dalmatia, Croatia.
- In which country does Klapa have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 432 people named Klapa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled klapa.
- Where is Klapa most common?
- Klapa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 89 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Klapa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 432 people named Klapa in 2026, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Klapa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/klapaThe 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, “Klapa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.