Lauper
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived at a Lauben, a row of houses and stores with an arcade in front, from Middle High German loube ‘arbor’, ‘bower’, ‘gallery’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫaʊpɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lauper is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.3K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,593 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name for someone who lived at a Lauben, a row of houses and stores with an arcade in front, from Middle High German loube ‘arbor’, ‘bower’, ‘gallery’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lauper 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,593 | 1 in 5.3K | 1.6K | Lauper | 55 |
| US United States | — | 228 | 1 in 1.5M | 252 | Lauper | 140 |
| AR Argentina | — | 38 | 1 in 1.2M | 38 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 24 | 1 in 8.8M | 24 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 3 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #691 | — | — | — | Lauper | 1 |
1,593 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Lauper is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the short form of a Germanic personal name composed of the elements Hut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + berht ‘famous’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Cyndi, rock musician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Norwegian Nynorsk, present of laupa
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hans Lauperb. 1895CH(1895-1936)
- Claudia Lauper Bushmanb. 1934USAmerican historian
- Hubert Lauperb. 1944CHSwiss politician
- Erwin Lauperb. 1946CHSwiss wheelchair curler
- Cyndi Lauperb. 1953USAmerican singer
- Nils Lauperb. 1982CHSwiss freestyle skier
- Adrien Lauperb. 1987CHSwiss ice hockey player
- Sandro Lauperb. 1996CHSwiss association football player
- Urs LauperCHpolitician
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.6K | #648 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 252 | #81,047 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 228 | #82,613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 223 | #79,394 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 38 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #173,031 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #60,661 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #141,478 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Lauper mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived at a Lauben, a row of houses and stores with an arcade in front, from Middle High German loube ‘arbor’, ‘bower’, ‘gallery’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lauper?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫaʊpɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lauper have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Lauper, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lauper.
- Where is Lauper most common?
- Lauper is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lauper?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,593 people named Lauper in 2024, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Lauper compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Lauper is the 691st most common surname of 3,662 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lauperThe 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, “Lauper” — the 691st most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.