Lapian
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lapˈian/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lapian is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 378K
- NLNetherlands1 in 785K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lapi-An in PH Philippines.
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
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)
Lapian 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Lapian | 64 |
| PH Philippines | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 378K | — | Lapi-An | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | 22 | 1 in 785K | 22 | Lapian | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Lapian | 4 |
| US United States | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 21M | — | Lapian | 27 |
| SG Singapore | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Lapian | 3 |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Lapian is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, party; political party
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, to lick, lap
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)
- Bernard Wilhelm Lapianb. 1892IDIndonesian journalist and politician
- A.B. Lapianb. 1929IDIndonesian historian
- Marsha Lenatheab. 2006IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian singer
- Randi LapianIDIndonesian political candidate
- Vivi J LapianIDIndonesian political candidate
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 22 | #47,577 |
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
- How do you pronounce Lapian?
- A machine transcription gives /lapˈian/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Lapian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Lapian in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lapian.
- How common is the name Lapian?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 22 people named Lapian in 2007, about 1 in 785 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lapian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lapianThe 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, “Lapian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.