Leppe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Old English personal name; surviving in Lipp
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/leβpe/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Leppe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 79K(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 170Kfew records
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Old English personal name; surviving in Lipp
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leppe 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.
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)Leppe is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, lip (fleshy protrusion framing the mouth)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, partitive plural of lepp
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a lip
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vot, alder
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)- Carlos Leppeb. 1952CLChilean photographer (1952–2015)
- Marcelo Leppeb. 1970CLChilean palaeobotanist
- Toni Leppeb. 1994FIFinnish film actor
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 48 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Leppe mean, and where does it come from?
- Old English personal name; surviving in Lipp Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Leppe?
- In Spanish /leβpe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Leppe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 250 people named Leppe in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leppe.
- How common is the name Leppe?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 48 people named Leppe, about 1 in 947 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Leppe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leppeThe 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, “Leppe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.