Lupa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. unflattering nickname from a Polish dialect word, lupa ‘foolish man’, ‘blockhead’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lupa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 13K
- PEPeru≈1 in 54K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
3,394 people, 2026
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:
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)
1. unflattering nickname from a Polish dialect word, lupa ‘foolish man’, ‘blockhead’. 2. (Lupa) nickname from Polish lupa ‘peel’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lupa 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.
3,394 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Lupa 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 Polish, magnifying glass
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Loba
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Indonesian, to forget
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, loss of memory, loss of consciousness
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Italian, female equivalent of lupo: she-wolf
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)
- Peter Lupab. 1921RSSerbian film actor of Greek descent
- Tadeusz Lupab. 1937PLassociation football player (1937-2017)
- Krystian Lupab. 1943PLPolish theatre director
- Felix Lupab. 1972ILIsraeli photographer
- Anna Straburzyńska-LupaPLPolish internist and rheumatologist
- Danuta Lupa-KujawińskaPLPolish commodity scientist
- Nicolae LupaROresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-8184-6160
- Lavinia LupaROresearcher
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #1,664 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #1,635 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 447 | #47,429 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 433 | #51,869 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 430 | #46,614 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 285 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
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
- Where does the name Lupa come from?
- 1. unflattering nickname from a Polish dialect word, lupa ‘foolish man’, ‘blockhead’. 2. (Lupa) nickname from Polish lupa ‘peel’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Lupa mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. unflattering nickname from a Polish dialect word, lupa ‘foolish man’, ‘blockhead’.
- In which country does Lupa have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Lupa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lupa.
- Where is Lupa most common?
- Lupa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lupa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,394 people named Lupa in 2026, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lupaThe 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, “Lupa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.