ZuPa

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

ZuPa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. In English, recorded as An administrative unit among various South Slavic peoples.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.7M(measured from records)
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 6.2K
  • HRCroatia1 in 19K

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.

Latvia (inferred from the name graph)

≈300 people, est.

Sources
98 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

soup

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How ZuPa is read(measured from records)

ZuPa 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.

  • English49%

    An administrative unit among various South Slavic peoples.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses ZuPa in Spanish.

  • Portuguese10%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses ZuPa in Portuguese.

  • Latvian7.9%

    soup (boiled liquid food, usually containing meat, fish, vegetables or cereal products)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Vārīts šķidrs ēdiens, kas iegūts no gaļas, zivju, dārzeņu novārījuma vai labības izstrādājumu novārījuma

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

    Šķidrums (piemēram, asinis, sula)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

    Benzīns

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

ZuPa 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.

Where ZuPa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia≈300 est.≈1 in 6.2K—ZuPa5
BR Brazil2461 in 861K246—1
HR Croatia2231 in 19K223——
US United States1221 in 2.7M123ZuPa98
PL Poland561 in 684K31——
CZ Czechia141 in 764K14——
JM Jamaica≈5 est.≈1 in 528K—ZuPa1

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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

ZuPa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Župa

  • Croatian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Župa

  • Latvian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Zūpa

  • Estonian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Župa

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Župa, Żupa

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Зупа, Zhupa, Župa, Жупа

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

ZuPa 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 Polish, soup

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Reference works 4

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

Where does the name ZuPa come from?
soup Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name ZuPa mean?
In English, An administrative unit among various South Slavic peoples.
In which country does ZuPa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 302 people named ZuPa in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ZuPa.
How common is the name ZuPa?
In Brazil, the national register counted 246 people named ZuPa, about 1 in 861 thousand residents.

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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, “ZuPa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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