Frequency: (432)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Polish and Lithuanian: nickname from Latin culpa ‘fault’, ‘guilt’, a nickname for an apologetic person who frequently used the Latin expression mea culpa ‘my fault’.
GIVEN NAMES: Polish 7%. Stanislaw (2), Tadeusz (2), Bronislaw, Malgorzata, Pawel, Ryszard, Wladyslawa; Kestutiss, Vytautas.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
