Waipa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A territorial authority in Waikato region, New Zealand, with its main towns being Cambridge and Te Awamutu; in full, Waipa District
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/waipa/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Waipa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M(measured from records)
- INIndia≈1 in 370M
- CACanada≈1 in 6.9Mfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7M (inferred from the name graph)
121 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A territorial authority in Waikato region, New Zealand, with its main towns being Cambridge and Te Awamutu; in full, Waipa District.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Waipa is found
(measured from records)Waipa 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 | 121 | 1 in 2.7M | 135 | Waipa | 67 |
| CA Canada | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 6.9M | — | Waipa | 2 |
| IN India | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 371M | 1 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 21M | — | Waipa | 1 |
121 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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kame'eiamoku Waipab. 1814Chief of Kohala, Hawaii
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Waipa mean, and where does it come from?
- A territorial authority in Waikato region, New Zealand, with its main towns being Cambridge and Te Awamutu; in full, Waipa District. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Waipa?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /waipa/; in Spanish /waipa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Waipa?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 121 people named Waipa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waipa. After it come Canada, India and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Waipa most common?
- Waipa is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Waipa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 121 people named Waipa in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waipaThe 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, “Waipa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.