The Nalepa surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 816 people carried this name — #29,064 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 357,100 people counted. That is up 1% from 804 in 2000.
In Poland’s population register
4,263 people named Nalepa have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 4,792 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in all 16 of Poland’s voivodeships, most of all in Lesser Poland.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 66 people named Nalepa.
23 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Moselle.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
24 people named Nalepa is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Nalepa,
with a public archive behind them.
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Paul Nalepa 1846–1900 · politician
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Alfred Nalepa 1856–1929 · zoologist
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Jerzy Nalepa 1926–2017 · historian
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Marian Nalepa 1936–2019 · theologian
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Marian Nalepa 1936–2019 · theologian
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Tadeusz Nalepa 1943–2007 · singer
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Nalepa.
When the index is not enough
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