Paepae
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The horizontal element on the ground at the front of a wharenui, serving as the threshold of the building
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Paepae is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8.2Kas Papa(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 55Kas Papa
- SNSenegal≈1 in 2.1Kas Papa
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Paepae 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 named Papa, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est., as Papa
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Papa in US United States, PH Philippines, IT Italy.
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)
The horizontal element on the ground at the front of a wharenui, serving as the threshold of the building.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paepae 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #983 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Papa | 82 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 1 | Papa | 73 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 89 | — | 33 |
| US United States | — | 6,005as Papa | 1 in 55K | 6K | Papa | 358 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,612as Papa | 1 in 38K | 5.6K | — | 5 |
| HR Croatia | — | 344as Papa | 1 in 12K | 344 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 305as Papa | 1 in 11K | 305 | — | — |
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); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)
Paepae is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tkl, to be white
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Paepae mean, and where does it come from?
- The horizontal element on the ground at the front of a wharenui, serving as the threshold of the building. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Paepae a male or female name?
- Paepae is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Paepae have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Papa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Paepae?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,005 people named Papa in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Paepae compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Paepae is the 983rd most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paepaeThe 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, “Paepae” — the 983rd most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.