Tapa

loc · Latin script

Meaning: name of many men (P); Siva (N)

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

Tapa is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

name of many men (P); Siva (N)

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tapa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Tapa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—137Tapa78
IN India—271—14
PL Poland—32——
BR Brazil—27——
GB United Kingdom—8—32

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)

Tapa is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ťapa

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tàpà

  • Bangla surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India

    Also written টপ, টুপু, টুপ, Tap, Top

44 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)

Tapa 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 rar, the margin, the edge, fringe, border of anything; the brink or edge, as of a cliff; a piece, portion or slice of anything

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In English, A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.

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

  • In ifb, for someone to smoke meat over a fire (as beef, catfish, venison, eel, frog, mudfish)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Tongan, edge, rim, border; boundary, boundary line; side (of a square, triangle, etc.)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In aud, to cut the stomach of a fish in order to remove the gut; to circumcise

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

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 14 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Tapa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—308#10,350
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—271#14,398
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—226#628
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010137#125,282
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020110#149,446
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202632—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—32#67,928
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—30#11,303
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—27#160,000
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202625—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—25#79,206
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—18#1,853

Reference works 2

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 Tapa mean, and where does it come from?
name of many men (P); Siva (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
In which country does Tapa have the most bearers?
Tapa is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled tapa.

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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tapa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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