Páramo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: wasteland, badlands

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Páramo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • COColombia≈1 in 20K
  • ESSpain1 in 26K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,348 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
204 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PáramoLatin(measured from records)
ПарамоCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Paramo in US United States, CO Colombia, NI Nicaragua and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

wasteland, badlands

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Páramo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Páramo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3,3481 in 99K3.3KParamo204
CO Colombia—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 20K3Paramo61
ES Spain—1,9301 in 26K1.9KParamo92
NI Nicaragua#306≈1,700 est.≈1 in 3.5K—Paramo12
AO Angola#656≈1,400 est.≈1 in 23K—Paramo1
TT Trinidad & Tobago#785≈180 est.≈1 in 6.7K—Paramo1

3,348 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Páramo is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Parámo, Paramo

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Türkiye, Philippines

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Paramo

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Paramo, Pàramo

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Paramo

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Páramo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, mesa, plateau, high wasteland or moorland

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Antonio Páramo Somoza, b. 1731Roberto Páramo, b. 1859Eloy Páramo Díaz, b. 1900Kid Azteca, b. 1913Juan Manuel Páramo Neyra, b. 1939Pablo Páramo, b. 1955José Manuel González-Páramo, b. 1958María Páramo, b. 1963Andrea Boada Páramo, b. 1974

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Páramo mean, and where does it come from?
wasteland, badlands Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Páramo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Páramo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paramo.
How common is the name Páramo?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,348 people named Páramo in 2010, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
How common is Páramo compared with other names?
In Nicaragua, Páramo is the 306th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Páramo” — the 306th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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