Papa

Papa is the 5,557th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,042 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,500.

By the numbers

People: 6,042
Rank: 5,557th
How common: 1 in 49,500
Per 100,000: 2.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Papa described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 12.5%
Hispanic or Latino 6.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Papa

Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510–1555)16th-century Flemish composer
Emiliano Papa (born 1982)Argentine footballer

People named Papa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Papa

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.