Tapek

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 421K(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

91 people, 2026

Sources
4 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 421K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tapek 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 Tapek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland911 in 421K49——
US United States———Tapek4
PH Philippines———Tapek1
AU Australia———Tapek1
IN India——15——

91 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)

Tapek is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tãpek

  • Thai surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written ทาเป๊ก, ทาเป็ก, Tapec, Thapek, ทาเปก

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines

    Also written Tãpek

  • French name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tãpek

16 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)

Tapek is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In dgc, to slap a mosquito

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Tapek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202649—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—49#51,256
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202642—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—42#56,419
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—15#4,084

Reference works 1

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

In which country does Tapek have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 91 people named Tapek, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Tapek most common?
Tapek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 421 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Tapek?
In Poland, the national register counted 91 people named Tapek in 2026, about 1 in 421 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, “Tapek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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