Lepke

surname · Latin script

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

Lepke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 534K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 798K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M

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.

United States (measured from records)

181 people, 2010

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 534K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lepke 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 Lepke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1811 in 1.8M210Lepke5
PL Poland481 in 798K25——
BR Brazil451 in 4.7M45——
DK Denmark111 in 534K11——
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4——

181 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)

Lepke 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 Hungarian, butterfly

    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)

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 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Lepke
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020210#93,627
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000190#90,252
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010181#99,845
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—45#112,812
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202625—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—25#78,384
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202623—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—23#82,738
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—11#37,052
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Lepke have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 181 people named Lepke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lepke.
Where is Lepke most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lepke is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 534 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lepke?
In the United States, the national register counted 181 people named Lepke in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million 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, “Lepke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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