Given name & surname · also Aramaic
Kepa
“as solid as a stone”
Kepa is used as a given name and a surname. One Basque interpretation is “as solid as a stone.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Basque interpretation is “as solid as a stone.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Aramaic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kepa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 19
- 19 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 210 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kepa’s family of names
Kepa has a conventional naming counterpart in Peter. In Basque usage, Kepa has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Piotr. In Basque usage, Kepa has a conventional equivalent in the English form Cephas.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kepa has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Aramaic roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 28
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Peterequivalent
- Pedroequivalent
- Pierreequivalent
- Pietroequivalent
- Pieroequivalent
- CephasEnglish
- Petarequivalent
- Pieterequivalent
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- Petrusequivalent
- Pederequivalent
- Petroequivalent
- Perequivalent
- Petrequivalent
- Peerequivalent
- Petterequivalent
- PiotrPolish
- Peruequivalent
- Peeterequivalent
- Pietequivalent
- Pjeturequivalent
- Pēterisequivalent
- Peteloequivalent
- Petkoequivalent
- Petteriequivalent
- Petrasequivalent
- Pjeterequivalent
- Péturequivalent
- Peroequivalent
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Kepa
- Kepa ArrizabalagaSpanish footballer (born 1994)
- Kepa BlancoSpanish footballerborn 1984
- Kepa JunkeraBasque musicianborn 1965
- ZigorSpanish born sculptorborn 1947
- Kepa SojoSpanish film directorborn 1968
- Kepa AmuchásteguiColombian actor1941–2025
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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