Papie

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Papie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 86K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 2.1M

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.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈660 people, est.

Sources
36 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Päpie in DE Germany.

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)

Papie 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.

Where Papie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈660 est.≈1 in 86K—Papie10
US United States≈11 est.≈1 in 30MlistedPapie36
PH Philippines≈9 est.≈1 in 12M—Papie2
NL Netherlands≈8 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Papie2
DE Germany≈3 est.≈1 in 28M—Päpie5
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

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: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Papie is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, South Africa

    Also written Papié

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Папье

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Papie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, dative/locative singular of papa

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Afrikaans, chrysalis, pupa, cocoon

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In aud, firewood

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In mek, woman

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Papie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#593

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Papie a male or female name?
Papie is a male 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.
In which country does Papie have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 657 people named Papie in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled papie.
How common is the name Papie?
In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Papie in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Papie?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/papie

The 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, “Papie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Papie parses inside a full name →