Papä
surname · Latin script
Papä is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Staffs. see Pape .
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 55K
- SNSenegal≈1 in 2.1K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Senegal, 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 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)Main GB Location (1881): Staffs. see Pape .
Cited for this meaning 8
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Papä 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 | — | 6,005 | 1 in 55K | 6K | Papa | 358 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,612 | 1 in 38K | 5.6K | — | 5 |
| HR Croatia | — | 344 | 1 in 12K | 344 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 305 | 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Papä mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Staffs. see Pape . Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Papä have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Papä in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled papa.
- How common is the name Papä?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,005 people named Papä in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Papä compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Papä is the 983rd most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pap%C3%A4The 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, “Papä” — the 983rd most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.