Nappe
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nappe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In English, recorded as The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop.
- ARArgentina1 in 734K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.4M
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
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 734K (inferred from the name graph)
174 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nappe is read(measured from records)
Nappe 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.
- English56%
The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nappe in Spanish.
- French10.0%
tablecloth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nappe in German.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Nappe 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 | 174 | 1 in 1.9M | 188 | Nappe | 13 |
| AR Argentina | 62 | 1 in 734K | 62 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 48 | 1 in 4.4M | 48 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | 15 | Nappe | 58 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 1 |
174 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Nappe is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of nap (“drinking bowl”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, to grab, snatch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yol, nap, sleep
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)
- Hermann Nappeb. 1900DEGerman politician
- Orlando Nappeb. 1931ARArgentine footballer (1931-2007)
- Franco Ragusab. 1993CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
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 6 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Nappe mean, and where does it come from?
- The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nappe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 174 people named Nappe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nappe.
- Where is Nappe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nappe is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 734 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nappe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 174 people named Nappe in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nappeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Nappe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.