Sapia

surname · Latin script

Meaning: variante regional de Savia

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

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

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 54K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 403K
  • UYUruguay1 in 10K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,500 people, est.

Sources
52 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

variante regional de Savia

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sapia 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 Sapia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈1,500 est.≈1 in 41KlistedSapia18
CN China≈1,200 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Sapia2
AR Argentina8371 in 54K837Sapia51
US United States5331 in 624K575Sapia45
BR Brazil5251 in 403K525Sapia52
UY Uruguay3331 in 10K333Sapia15
CU Cuba≈83 est.≈1 in 133K—Sapia2
CH Switzerland241 in 350K24—2

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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)

Sapia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Supia, সুপিয়া, সপিয়া, ସୁପିଆ, সুৃপিয়া

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Italy

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sapïa

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Sapìa

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sapiá, Sapìa

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Italy, Philippines

    Also written Sapiá, Sápia

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19601970198019902000Mariano Sapia, b. 1964Francesco Sapia, b. 1969Rosanna Sapia, b. 1992

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Sapia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—837—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000575#36,672
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010533#40,909
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020526#44,069
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—525#16,339
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—333—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202424#32,062
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Sapia mean, and where does it come from?
variante regional de Savia Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
In which country does Sapia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Sapia in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sapia.
Where is Sapia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sapia is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sapia?
In Argentina, the national register counted 837 people named Sapia, about 1 in 54 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, “Sapia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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