Pape

Pape is the 5,539th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,071 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,200.

By the numbers

People: 6,071
Rank: 5,539th
How common: 1 in 49,200
Per 100,000: 2.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Pape

René Pape (born 1964)Operatic bass
Alexander August Wilhelm von Pape (1813–1895)German general
Lygia Pape (1927–2004)Brazilian artist
Pascal Papé (born 1980)French rugby union player

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

Surnames like Pape

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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.