Lapko
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lapko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 17Kas Лапко(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 86Kas Лапко
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 84K
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 Lapko 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovakia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лапко in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lapko 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Лапко | 2 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Лапко | 39 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Лапко | 115 |
| BY Belarus | #908 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Лапко | 20 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Лапко | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 269 | 1 in 142K | 141 | Lapko | 16 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Lapko | 19 |
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). 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)
Lapko 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 Russian, dim of Lapa.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Mykola Lapkob. 1976UAUkrainian association football player
- Vera Lapkob. 1998BYBelarusian female tennis player
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 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 141 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 141 | #22,176 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 128 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 128 | #24,542 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Lapko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Lapko in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled лапко.
- How common is the name Lapko?
- In Poland, the national register counted 269 people named Lapko in 2026, about 1 in 142 thousand residents.
- How common is Lapko compared with other names?
- In Belarus, Lapko is the 908th most common surname of 80,255 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lapko?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lapkoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lapko” — the 908th most common surname in Belarus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.