Tupas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tupas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: second-person singular present subjunctive of tupir.
- FIFinland1 in 265K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 914K
- PLPoland1 in 4.3M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 265K (inferred from the name graph)
364 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular present subjunctive of tupir
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tupas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 364 | 1 in 914K | 413 | Tupas | 57 |
| FI Finland | 21 | 1 in 265K | 21 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 9 | 1 in 4.3M | 6 | — | — |
| GT Guatemala | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 6.5M | — | Tupas | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 2 | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | — | — |
364 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Tupas is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, Rajah Tupas; the last rajah of Cebu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, A tuft of grass or other plants.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, eroded, crumbled (on soil)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, a surname from Cebuano
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)
- Anastacia Giron-Tupasb. 1890PHfounder of the Philippine Nurses Association and first Filipino nurse to hold the position of Chief Nurse Superintendent (1890-1972)
- Raul Tupasb. 1971PHFilipino politician
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 413 | #53,969 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 364 | #56,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 254 | #71,610 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 21 | #42,281 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #188,058 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #295,947 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #69,920 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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 Tupas mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present subjunctive of tupir Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Tupas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 364 people named Tupas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tupas.
- Where is Tupas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tupas is densest in Finland — about 1 in 265 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tupas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 364 people named Tupas in 2010, about 1 in 914 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tupasThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tupas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.