Napa
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Napa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 78K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 163K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
10,172 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
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(measured from records)
Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Napa 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.
10,172 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Napa 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 English, city, county, valley, CA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, auto parts chain
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Finnish, navel, belly button/bellybutton
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In grt, enter, go in, come in
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, mother-in-law
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)
- Toomas Napab. 1953EEEstonian racing driver (born 1953)
- Selina Napab. 1964CKCook Island politician
- Dylan Napab. 1992NZrugby player
- Janpol Moralesb. 1998PAnot in their usual nameEcuadorian association football player
- Malachi Napab. 1999GBEnglish association football player
- Teuira Shanti NapaCKactress
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Napa mean, and where does it come from?
- Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Napa have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Napa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Napa most common?
- Napa is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Napa?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 10,172 people named Napa in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Napa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/napaThe 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, “Napa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.