Kpa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of Korean People's Army
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kpa˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kpa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
221 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of Korean People's Army.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kpa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 221 | 1 in 1.5M | 308 | Kpa | 39 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | — | Kpa | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Kpa | 5 |
| IN India | — | — | 3 | Kpa | 3 |
| AO Angola | — | — | — | Kpa | 1 |
221 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)
Kpa 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 English, lang., Africa
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In men, a fetish, and the sacred place where car- cases of ferocious animals are brought for the wor- ship of their spirits
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In men, v., to count, to number, to reckon; n., number. Ti ngi gbai lo, They counted him. Kpala, verb. n., counting
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In men, adv., fast, firm, loud. Ta miaa hou kpa, He it is, hold him fast. Kpa wo, loud voice or noise
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
Symbol for kilopascal, an SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 10³ pascals.
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 308 | #68,789 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 221 | #84,748 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Kpa mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of Korean People's Army. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kpa?
- A machine transcription gives /kpa˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does Kpa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 221 people named Kpa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kpa.
- Where is Kpa most common?
- Kpa is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kpa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 221 people named Kpa in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kpaThe 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, “Kpa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.