Rappe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Name from the Judengasse in Frankfort on Main since 1776
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɹæp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rappe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 390K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 41K
- FIFinland1 in 46K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Name from the Judengasse in Frankfort on Main since 1776. The family Rappaport had as a house sign the crows. When they went to Portugal, the name Rabe was joined with Por- to = Rappaport.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rappe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Rappe | 1 |
| US United States | 852 | 1 in 390K | 861 | Rappe | 194 |
| GH Ghana | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Rappe | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Rappe | 54 |
| BE Belgium | 285 | 1 in 41K | 285 | Rappe | 18 |
| SE Sweden | 181 | 1 in 56K | 181 | Rappe | 12 |
| FI Finland | 120 | 1 in 46K | 120 | Rappe | 7 |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Rappe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, black horse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Patro-/Metronym zu Rufnamen mit ahd. rāt, as. rād oder zu ahd. (h)raban 'Rabe'; meist auch als Übername 'Rabe'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In Swedish, definite natural masculine singular of rapp
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, to quack like a duck
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hrx, to grate
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)- Carl Rappeb. 1721SESwedish baron, politician and county governor (1721-1790)
- Louis Amadeus Rappeb. 1801FRCatholic bishop (1801-1877)
- Thorborg Rappeb. 1832SESwedish pedagogue
- Emmy Rappeb. 1835SEnurse and pioneer in Swedish nursing education
- Axel Rappeb. 1838SESwedish politician
- Signe Rappe-Weldenb. 1879SESwedish opera singer (1879-1974)
- Axel Rappeb. 1884SESwedish military personnel
- Virginia Rappeb. 1891USSilent film actress, model (1891–1921)
- Hermann Rappeb. 1929DEGerman politician (1929–2022)
- Martin Rappeb. 1993DEGerman figure skater
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)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 861 | #26,614 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 852 | #28,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 775 | #31,939 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 285 | #5,837 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 264 | #6,610 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 181 | #4,536 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 120 | #11,143 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 52 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Rappe come from?
- Name from the Judengasse in Frankfort on Main since 1776. The family Rappaport had as a house sign the crows. When they went to Portugal, the name Rabe was joined with Por- to = Rappaport. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Rappe?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹæp/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Rappe mean?
- Recorded meaning: Name from the Judengasse in Frankfort on Main since 1776.
- In which country does Rappe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Rappe in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rappe.
- Where is Rappe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rappe is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 41 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rappe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 852 people named Rappe in 2010, about 1 in 390 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rappeThe 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, “Rappe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.