Papia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Papia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.2M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.7Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Papia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈63,000 named Papiya, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Papiya in IN India, SA Saudi Arabia, AE United Arab Emirates and 1 more.
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)lat. Papia b. si f. < lat. papa tatA". 1.- I., act. 2. Papiu, Ilarian, istoricul, sau < magh. Pap + suf. -iu. ; Papiu, C. (L P1 370) ; 3. Probabil : Papuia, St. (16 B IV 266) ; cf. lat. Papus
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Papia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 11 | Papiya | 79 |
| BD Bangladesh | #541 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Papia | 29 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Papia | 25 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | 327 | Papia | 109 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 938K | — | Papiya | 3 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Papiya | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 650K | — | Papiya | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 597K | — | Papia | 1 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)Papia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Pavia (a town in Lombardy, Italy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pap, to speak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kea, to say
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)- Papias of Hierapolisb. 70TRnot in their usual nameGreek Apostolic Father, Bishop of Hierapolis and author (c.60-c.130 AD)
- Papias Musengamanab. 1967RWnot in their usual nameRwandan Roman Catholic bishop
- Papias Malimba MusafiriRWnot in their usual nameRwandan academic
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Papia a male or female name?
- Papia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Papia?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Papiya in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, Indonesia, United States and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Papia?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63,000 people in India have Papiya as their first given name, about 1 in 23 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Papia compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Papia is the 541st most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Papia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/papiaThe 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, “Papia” — the 541st most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.