Lepa

loc · Latin script

Meaning: slush (half-melted snow) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

Lepa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 776 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Lepa is also written Лепа in Cyrillic.

  • PLPoland1 in 49K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 155K
  • NONorway1 in 249K

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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

776 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
92 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Lepa in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin

(measured from records)
ЛепаLepa in Cyrillic(measured from records)
LyopaLepa in Latin(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)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where the surname Lepa is found

(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.

Where Lepa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland7761 in 49K401—42
RU Russia≈270 est.≈1 in 526K—Лепа92
UA Ukraine≈140 est.≈1 in 267K—Лепа13
US United States1261 in 2.6M126—17
EE Estonia≈95 est.≈1 in 15K63Лепа3
FI Finland361 in 155K36—1
NO Norway221 in 249K22—2

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). 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)

Lepa is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Lėpa

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Лёпа, Лепа, Lёpa

  • French name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Lèpa, Lépa, Lépà

36 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)

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)
19201930194019501960Lepa Svetozara Radić, b. 1925Lepa Lukić, b. 1940Margus Lepa, b. 1953

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)

34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.

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).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Lepa?
In Poland, the national register counted about 776 people named Lepa, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Russia, Ukraine, United States and Estonia; the country table on this page ranks them.
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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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” — ranked 8265th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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