Kapinga
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kapinɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kapinga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 879(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 8.4K
- ZMZambia≈1 in 12K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 879 (inferred from the name graph)
≈67,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Kapinga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #111 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 879 | 2 | Kapinga | 26 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #860 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 1 | Kapinga | 14 |
| ZM Zambia | #984 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Kapinga | 12 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 220K | — | Kapinga | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 96 | 1 in 180K | 96 | — | 6 |
| NA Namibia | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 2 | — | 2 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Kapinga 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 Nyanja, doob grass
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 96 | #19,716 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 1 | #42 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028) | 2026 | 1 | #207 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #12 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Kapinga?
- A machine transcription gives /kapinɡa/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Kapinga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named Kapinga in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kapinga.
- How common is the name Kapinga?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 96 people named Kapinga in 2007, about 1 in 180 thousand residents.
- How common is Kapinga compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Kapinga is the 111th most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kapingaThe 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, “Kapinga” — the 111th most common surname in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.