Mwepu
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/mwɛpu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mwepu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 159Kas Ilunga(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 165Kas Ilunga
- BEBelgium1 in 180Kas Ilunga
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mwepu 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
180 named Ilunga, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Ilunga
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mwepu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 180as Ilunga | 1 in 1.8M | 479 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 65as Ilunga | 1 in 180K | 65 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 62as Ilunga | 1 in 165K | 62 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 53as Ilunga | 1 in 159K | 53 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 26as Ilunga | 1 in 210K | 26 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 17as Ilunga | 1 in 328K | 30 | — | — |
180 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Enock Mwepub. 1998ZMformer Zambian association football player
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #124,425 |
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
- How do you pronounce Mwepu?
- A machine transcription gives /mwɛpu/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Mwepu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 180 people named Ilunga, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mwepu most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Mwepu itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 159 thousand people named Ilunga.
- How common is the name Mwepu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 180 people named Ilunga in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Mwepu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mwepuThe 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, “Mwepu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.