Lipka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, from lipka, diminutive of lipa ‘lime tree’ (see Lipa)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫɪpkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lipka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 200K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 20Kas Липка
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 Lipka 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Липка in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, CN China.
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)
topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, from lipka, diminutive of lipa ‘lime tree’ (see Lipa).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lipka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Липка | 2 |
| PL Poland | #647 | 7,563 | 1 in 5.1K | 3.8K | Lipka | 96 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Липка | 34 |
| US United States | — | 1,665 | 1 in 200K | 1.7K | Lipka | 62 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Липка | 109 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 338 | 1 in 32K | 338 | Lipka | 26 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 327 | 1 in 17K | 327 | Lipka | 28 |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
Lipka 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.
from a pet form of the female personal name Libe, derived from Yiddish libe ‘love’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name for someone from villages called Lipka or Lipki in Poland and Ukraine.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a pet form of the personal name Lipe.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, eher zu poln. lipka „kleine Linde“ oder Herkunftsname zu Siedlungsname Lipka; 756 Belege
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
— žr. Lipkis
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)
- Ruth Schob-Lipkab. 1928DEGerman singer and opera singer (1928-2011)
- Alfred Lipkab. 1931CZGerman violist
- František Lipkab. 1946SKSlovak diplomat and writer
- Robert Lipkab. 1946USAmerican spy (1946–2013)
- Krystyna Lipka-Sztarbałłob. 1949PLborn:1949|; Lipka-Sztarbałło, Krystyna
- Leszek Lipkab. 1958PLPolish footballer
- Frédéric Lipkab. 1968FRFrench figure skater
- Juraj Lipkab. 1975SKSlovak chess player
- Matt Lipkab. 1992USAmerixcan baseball player
- Kasia Lipkab. 1993GBEnglish footballer
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 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.8K | #564 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.7K | #591 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #17,056 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #16,035 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,822 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 338 | #4,834 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 338 | #4,065 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 327 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname 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)
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 Lipka mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, from lipka, diminutive of lipa ‘lime tree’ (see Lipa). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lipka?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɪpkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lipka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Lipka in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled липка.
- Where is Lipka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lipka is densest in Poland — about 1 in 5.1 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lipka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7,563 people named Lipka in 2026, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Lipka compared with other names?
- In Poland, Lipka is the 647th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lipkaThe 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, “Lipka” — the 647th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.