Lupia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a habitational name from a place named Lupia, possibly the locality so named in Scigliano in Cosenza province
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/lupja/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Lupia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 330K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 871K
- ESSpain1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 330K (inferred from the name graph)
382 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)probably a habitational name from a place named Lupia, possibly the locality so named in Scigliano in Cosenza province. Louppiai is the Greek name for Lecce, and this may also be the source of the surname.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lupia 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.
382 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)Lupia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, partitive plural of lupa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, The river Lippe
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)- Arthur Lupiab. 1964USAmerican political scientist, academic
- Elvidio Lupia Palmieriresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0003-0192-7548
- Raffaella LupiaITItalian archaeologist
- Flavio LupiaITresearcher
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 382 | #54,055 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 380 | #57,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 354 | #54,522 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 138 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #63,392 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #360,398 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Lupia mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a habitational name from a place named Lupia, possibly the locality so named in Scigliano in Cosenza province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lupia?
- In Spanish /lupja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Lupia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 382 people named Lupia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lupia.
- Where is Lupia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lupia is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 330 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lupia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 382 people named Lupia in 2010, about 1 in 871 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lupiaThe 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, “Lupia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.