Sīpols
surname · Latin script
Meaning: onion (herbaceous plant, sp
Sīpols is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈85 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia, 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 Sipols in LV Latvia, US United States, GB United Kingdom.
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)
onion (herbaceous plant, sp. Allium cepa, with succulent tubular or flat leaves and underground edible bulbs)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sīpols 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #417 | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Sipols | 12 |
| US United States | — | — | — | — | Sipols | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | — | Sipols | 7 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | — | listed | — | 1 |
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.
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)
Sīpols 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 Latvian, Liliju rindas lakšaugu dzimtas ģints ("Allium"), daudzgadīgs lakstaugs ar sulīgām stobrveida vai plakanām lapām un dažāda veida pazemes orgāniem (sakneņiem, sīpoliem, bumbuļsīpoliem), ~450 sugu, Latvijā konstatētas 7 sugas, daudzas kultivē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vasas pārveidne - īsvasa ar stipri sarukušu stumbru un sulīgām zvīņlapām, kurās uzkrājas barības vielas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Daļa (matam), kas atrodas zem ādas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Vilnis Sīpolsb. 1923RUSoviet historian
- Alfrēds Jānis Sīpolsb. 1950LVLatvian physician
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 2 sources across 1 country.
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
- Where does the name Sīpols come from?
- onion (herbaceous plant, sp. Allium cepa, with succulent tubular or flat leaves and underground edible bulbs) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Sīpols mean?
- Recorded meaning: onion (herbaceous plant, sp.
- In which country does Sīpols have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 people named Sīpols in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sipols.
- How common is the name Sīpols?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 people in Latvia have Sīpols as their first surname, about 1 in 22 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Sīpols compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Sīpols is the 417th most common surname of 60,294 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C4%ABpolsThe 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, “Sīpols” — the 417th most common surname in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.