Päper
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Päper is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx. unexplained; perhaps a nickname from Middle English papir(e) ‘paper’, or a development of the personal name Pape .
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 799K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- INIndia≈1 in 4.6M
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 Päper 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 299K (inferred from the name graph)
≈780 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Paper in US United States, IN India, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and Paeper in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium.
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): Middx. unexplained; perhaps a nickname from Middle English papir(e) ‘paper’, or a development of the personal name Pape .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Päper 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Paper | 5 |
| US United States | 294 | 1 in 1.1M | 314 | Paper | 102 |
| IN India | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | — | Paper | 7 |
| DE Germany | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 356K | — | Paper | 42 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 799K | 26 | Paper | 30 |
| BE Belgium | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Paeper | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 36as Paeper | 1 in 480K | 36 | Paeper | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 401K | — | Paper | 3 |
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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Päper mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Middx. unexplained; perhaps a nickname from Middle English papir(e) ‘paper’, or a development of the personal name Pape . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- In which country does Päper have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 780 people named Päper in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paper.
- How common is the name Päper?
- In the United States, the national register counted 294 people named Päper in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A4perThe 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, “Päper”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.