Kupu

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Kupu is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: spill.

rarermore common
  • COColombia
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
5 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

spill

Sources 1

  • Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kupu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Kupu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States——Kupu5
CO Colombia——Kupu1
PG Papua New Guinea—2——
IN India—24——

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: PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kupu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Küpü

32 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)

Kupu 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 Hawaiian, sprout, growth; offspring; upstart, as one rising suddenly and conspicuously to high position; to sprout, grow, increase; to occur

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In urj-fin-pro, crop, craw (part of birds' digestive tract)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, dome (architectural element)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, accusative singular of kupa

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hawaiian, to sprout, to germinate

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Kupu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—24#3,228
PG Papua New GuineaPNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022)—2#34

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kupu mean, and where does it come from?
spill Recorded by Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003.
In which country does Kupu have the most bearers?
Kupu is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled kupu.

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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, “Kupu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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