Lopata
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname or occupational name from lopata ‘shovel’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫoʊˈpɑtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lopata is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 405K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 44K
- CZCzechia1 in 44K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname or occupational name from lopata ‘shovel’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lopata 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 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Lopata | 1 |
| US United States | 822 | 1 in 405K | 841 | Lopata | 197 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Lopata | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 262 | 1 in 808K | 262 | Lopata | 35 |
| CZ Czechia | 243 | 1 in 44K | 244 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | 125 | 1 in 44K | 125 | — | — |
| RO Romania | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Lopata | 4 |
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); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); 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)
Lopata 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.
In Czech, shovel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Plg. Lopata, Lūpatas (žr.). Toliau sietina su brus. Jlanama, rus. Jlonama (M. EnpBUia, 1969, c. 245), lenk. Lopata (SSNO III 333). Dar žr. Lopetd
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Russian, "spade."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In sla-pro, shovel, spade
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »1° ašov, Schaufel, Spaten, 2° toponim«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)
- Jan Lopatab. 1916PLPolish defendant in Nuremberg special court
- Bronislovas Lopatab. 1920LTpolitician
- Stan Lopatab. 1925USbaseball player (1925-2013)
- Helena Znaniecki Lopatab. 1925USsociologist (1925-2003)
- Jiří Lopatab. 1936CZCzech soccer player and soccer coach (1936–2021)
- Anatolii Lopatab. 1940UAUkrainian colonel general
- Vasyl Ivanovych Lopatab. 1941UAUkrainian painter
- Jacqueline Lopatab. 1957FRFrench politician
- Raimundas Lopatab. 1965LTLithuanian historian and university teacher
- Evgenia Lopatab. 1994UAUkrainian culture manager and translator
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 841 | #29,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 822 | #28,909 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 815 | #27,771 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 262 | #29,504 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 244 | #5,030 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 243 | #6,901 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 125 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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
- 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 Lopata mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname or occupational name from lopata ‘shovel’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lopata?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫoʊˈpɑtə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lopata have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.9 thousand people named Lopata in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lopata.
- Where is Lopata most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lopata is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lopata?
- In the United States, the national register counted 822 people named Lopata in 2010, about 1 in 405 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lopataThe 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, “Lopata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.