Lepp

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Lepp is one spelling over 3 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.

• English67%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Lepp in English.

• German10%

  1. unflattering nickname from Middle High German lappe ‘coxcomb’, ‘puppy’ (modern German Lajfe). 2. habitational name from a place so named near Neuss in the Rhineland.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Estonian7.0%

  alder (tree)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Lepp is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Estonia, United States, Ukraine, Finland

  Languages: Estonian, Finnish

  Also written Lépp

• French surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Estonia

  Also written Lépp, Lëpp

• Russian surname10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Лепп, Лапп, Lapp

36 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.

Lepp 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 lud, alder

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Ignace Leppb. 1909FREstonian-French writer (1909-1966)
• Peeter Leppb. 1943EEEstonian politician (born 1943)
• Mati Leppb. 1947SESwedish illustrator

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).

21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Lepp mean, and where does it come from?

1. unflattering nickname from Middle High German lappe ‘coxcomb’, ‘puppy’ (modern German Lajfe). 2. habitational name from a place so named near Neuss in the Rhineland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Lepp?

In Estonia, the national register counted about 779 people named Lepp, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lepp. After it come Germany, United States, Canada and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Lepp most common?

Lepp is densest in Estonia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Lepp?

In Estonia, the national register counted 779 people named Lepp, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.

How common is Lepp compared with other names?

In Estonia, Lepp is the 521st most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.