Tapp
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Old English male personal name Tceppa, of unknown origin and meaning
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtæp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tapp is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 38K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 41K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 336 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Old English male personal name Tceppa, of unknown origin and meaning.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tapp 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Tapp | 4 |
| US United States | 6,186 | 1 in 54K | 6.2K | Tapp | 336 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 2K | Tapp | 144 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Tapp | 117 |
| EG Egypt | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Tapp | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Tapp | 115 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Tapp | 65 |
| FI Finland | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Tapp | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tapp 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 English, from OE *Tæppa, unrecorded, but the first element of Taplow (Bucks), Tapners (Kent), Tappington (Kent) and Tapton (Derby); first attested John Tappe 1194
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, certain origin and meaning. Var.; Tappe. Dims.: Tap(l)in. Patrs.: Tapping (Bucks.); Tapps(on).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, uncertain origin and meaning.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In enm, alternative form of tappe (“plug”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, singular imperative of tappen
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)
- Theodore Tappb. 1883GBEnglish cricketer and British Army officer
- Frank Tappb. 1883GBBritish composer and pianist
- Jimmy Tappb. 1918Canadian voice actor
- Gordie Tappb. 1922CACanadian singer (1922–2016)
- Harriet Burnsb. 1928USnot in their usual nameAmerican artist and designer (1928–2008)
- Nicholas Tappb. 1952CNBritish sinologist
- Alex Tappb. 1982GBProfessional association football player (born 1982)
- Darryl Tappb. 1984USplayer of American football
- Jake Tappb. 1988CACanadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, former world record-holder
- Emily Tappb. 1991AUAustralian wheelchair Paralympic athlete and triathlete
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.2K | #5,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6K | #5,319 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6K | #5,569 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2K | #3,699 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Tapp mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Old English male personal name Tceppa, of unknown origin and meaning. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Tapp?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtæp/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tapp have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Tapp in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tapp.
- How common is the name Tapp?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,186 people named Tapp in 2010, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tappThe 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, “Tapp”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.