Tupan
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A large double-headed drum, played with mallets
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃpæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tupan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 314K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 556K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tupan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 314K (inferred from the name graph)
381 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ตู๋ปาน in TH Thailand.
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)
A large double-headed drum, played with mallets.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Tupan is read(measured from records)
Tupan is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English34%
A large double-headed drum, played with mallets.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tupan in Portuguese.
- Indonesian16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tupan in Indonesian.
- Spanish11%
inflection of tupir:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tupan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 381 | 1 in 556K | 381 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 549K | #221,163 | ตู๋ปาน | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | 55 | 1 in 314K | 55 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Tupan | 4 |
381 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tupan 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 Serbo-Croatian, witling
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)
- Renato Tupanb. 1979BRBrazilian handball player
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 381 | #21,638 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 55 | #28,915 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Tupan mean, and where does it come from?
- A large double-headed drum, played with mallets. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tupan?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃpæn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tupan have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 381 people named Tupan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tupan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tupan is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 314 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tupan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 381 people named Tupan, about 1 in 556 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tupan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tupanThe 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, “Tupan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.