Lepa
loc · Latin script
Meaning: slush (half-melted snow)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lepa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 542Kas Лепа(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 22K
- PLPoland1 in 49K
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 Lepa 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
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
776 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лепа in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, EE Estonia.
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)
slush (half-melted snow)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lepa 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 | 776 | 1 in 49K | 401 | — | 42 |
| RU Russia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 542K | — | Лепа | 92 |
| IN India | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | 1 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 272K | — | Лепа | 13 |
| US United States | 126 | 1 in 2.6M | 126 | — | 17 |
| EE Estonia | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 63 | Лепа | 3 |
| FI Finland | 36 | 1 in 155K | 36 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 246K | 21 | — | — |
776 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SURS — resident population given names; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Lepa 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.
Plg. liet. lėpa „pernelyg lėL tas, ištižęs, nerangus, tingus žmogus“ (LKŽ VII 362). , LEPAJUS Pjv. Plg. brus. Jlinaū, rus. Jlunaee (M. Eaptuia, 1969, c. 252)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Russian, Lepa zhena Zvonimira Khorvatskogo. 1087.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In bpz, carry with a shoulder pole (of one person or two in tandem)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In kaw, ointment, unguent, plaster
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Estonian, genitive singular of lepp
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)
- Albert Lepab. 1907DEGerman civil servant and functionary (1907-1991)
- Paula Lepab. 1912DEGerman actress and voice actress (1912–1984)
- Astrid Lepab. 1924EEEstonian actor, producer, and director (1924-2015)
- Lepa Svetozara Radićb. 1925BASerbian communist partisan (1925-1943)
- Ester Lepab. 1928EEEstonian singer and music pedagogue (1928-2013)
- Adam Lepab. 1939PLPolish priest
- Lepa Lukićb. 1940RSsinger
- Margus Lepab. 1953EEEstonian actor (born 1953)
- Lepa Mlađenovićb. 1954RSSerbian feminist
- Martin Lepab. 1976EEEstonian footballer (born 1976)
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 34 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 401 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 401 | #8,265 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 375 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 375 | #8,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 126 | #133,863 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 121 | #129,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 105 | #152,989 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 63 | #1,411 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 50 | #1,941 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 36 | #30,122 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,165 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Lepa mean, and where does it come from?
- slush (half-melted snow) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lepa have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 776 people named Lepa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lepa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 776 people named Lepa in 2026, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lepaThe 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, “Lepa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.