Tapas
given name · Latin script
Meaning: an adopted son of Vastavani (P); Agni (K)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tapas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 16K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 50K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
an adopted son of Vastavani (P); Agni (K)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tapas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Tapas | 36 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Tapas | 9 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Tapas | 2 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Tapas | 1 |
| US United States | — | 185 | 1 in 1.8M | 184 | Tapas | 129 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Tapas | 19 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Tapas | 8 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Tapas | 7 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Tapas | 5 |
| IN India | #674 | — | — | 12 | Tapas | 165 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Tapas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A variety of Spanish small savoury food items or snacks such as croquettes, cured meat, potato salad, and seafood, originally served with sherry and now often with other alcoholic beverages as well.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dgc, to cut the stalk of the heart of the coconut or nipa palm (in order to collect the sap for wine); to cut a hole in a coconut (in order to drink the juice from it)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Indonesian, coir for washing kitchen utensils, made of coarse-textured synthetic fibers
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, act of dehusking a coconut (usually with a sharp bolo)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, An individual item of tapas; mostly used in plural.
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)
- Tapas Dasb. 1954INIndian musician and formar member of Tapas Das Moheener Ghoraguli
- Tapas MishraBEeconomist
- Tapas BaugCNresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-0295-6586)
- Tapas KanungoUSPh.D. University of Washington 1996
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Tapas mean, and where does it come from?
- an adopted son of Vastavani (P); Agni (K) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Is Tapas a male or female name?
- Tapas is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tapas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Tapas in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tapas.
- How common is the name Tapas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 185 people named Tapas in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Tapas compared with other names?
- In India, Tapas is the 674th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tapasThe 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, “Tapas” — the 674th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.