Mpaka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: until (up to the time of (something happening)) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Mpaka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 390K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 560K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.7M
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)until (up to the time of (something happening))
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Mpaka is found
(measured from records)Mpaka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Mpaka | 11 |
| AO Angola | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Mpaka | 3 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Mpaka | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Mpaka | 5 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Mpaka | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Mpaka is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lua, hard excrement as result of constipation.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In Albanian, first-person plural aorist indicative of mpak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lu, wild cat
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In kg, quarrel
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mpaka mean, and where does it come from?
- until (up to the time of (something happening)) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mpaka?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Mpaka in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mpaka. After it come Angola, Tanzania, South Africa and Congo - Brazzaville; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mpaka?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 15 people named Mpaka in 2024, about 1 in 560 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mpaka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mpakaThe 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, “Mpaka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.