Pipa

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: pipe (device used for smoking)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pipa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pipa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 122K
  • PLPoland1 in 220K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

292 people

Sources
104 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 122K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

pipe (a wooden barrel, cask, or vat, especially for wine)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

How Pipa is read(measured from records)

Pipa is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish64%

    pipe (device used for smoking)

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

  • English11%

    A pear-shaped plucked lute from China.

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

  • Portuguese5.6%

    pipe (a wooden barrel, cask, or vat, especially for wine)

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pipa 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 Pipa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2921 in 725K292—2
US United States1881 in 1.8M205Pipa104
PL Poland1741 in 220K91—1
CZ Czechia881 in 122K88——
ES Spain601 in 834K60Pipa7
CH Switzerland121 in 700K12Pipa4

292 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Pipa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Czechia, Poland

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Czech

    Also written Пипа, Піпа, Pípa, Pípá, Pipą

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Peru

    Also written Pípa

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Peru

    Also written Pípa

  • Thai given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Peru, United States, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Papha, ปะพา, ปพา, ปาพา, ปีพา

37 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)

Pipa 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 jpx-pro, siskin

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Polish, pipette (small glass tube used for transferring liquid)

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

  • In Swedish, a pipe (e.g. smoking tool, organ pipe etc)

    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)

1850190019502000István Pipa, b. 1899Arshi Pipa, b. 1920Bedi Pipa, b. 1923Erich Pipa, b. 1948Štefan Pipa, b. 1950Petr Pipa, b. 1964Alexander Pipa, b. 1968Nataliya Pipa, b. 1983Shaline-Doreen Pipa, b. 1999

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)

FormalEstimado Sr. Pipa,Dear Mr Pipa, (English)
InformalHola Pipa,Hi Pipa, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 34 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Pipa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—292#27,027
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020205#95,461
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010188#96,799
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000175#96,480
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202691—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—91#31,958
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202683—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—83#34,824
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—60#39,344
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—60#39,093
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—52#28,308
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—52#10,433

Reference works 5

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

Where does the name Pipa come from?
pipe (a wooden barrel, cask, or vat, especially for wine) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Pipa?
A machine transcription gives /pipa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Pipa mean?
In Spanish, pipe (device used for smoking)
In which country does Pipa have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 292 people named Pipa, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pipa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pipa is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 122 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pipa?
In Brazil, the national register counted 292 people named Pipa, about 1 in 725 thousand residents.

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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, “Pipa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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