Pärna

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pärna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FIFinland1 in 61K
  • DKDenmark1 in 2M

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.

Estonia (inferred from the name graph)

≈300 people, est.

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Pärnä in FI Finland.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Romanian

cf. adj. parnAu, calificativ pentru berbeci (Sd VII 225 rind 7 ; Drag. 141). 1. - vecin (17 B III 532). 2. Pfrndu b. (Buzau). 3. Parnila, Stan, 1819, munt. (RA V 126). 4. Cf. Ptrnechea b., mold. (Sur III). 5. Cf. si cu -ag : Parnag b. (Sd XXII). Pars/an, -inar, -oiu, -u v. P 1 r 1, 3-5. Part/a, -aim, -al v. P1 r t 1, 3, 5. Parus v. Par 1. Parv/an, -oel v. P 1 r v u 3, 5.

Sources 4

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pärna 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 Pärna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EE Estonia#206≈300 est.≈1 in 4.2K374Pärna20
IN India—1081 in 12M108—3
FI Finland—921 in 61K92Pärnä4
ES Spain—131 in 3.8M13——
SE Sweden—≈3 est.≈1 in 3.6M4——
DK Denmark—31 in 2M3——

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: the ee-stat-nimed register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Pärna is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, United States

    Also written Parna, Paerna

  • Spanish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia

    Also written Parna

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Parna

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Parnā, Parna

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Parna

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Parna

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Parna

  • Ukrainian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Estonia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Парна, Parna

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Parna

8 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Natalie Johanson-Pärna, b. 1843Jakob Johanson-Pärna, b. 1858Nikolai Pärna, b. 1878Karl Pärna, b. 1904Ants Pärna, b. 1935Elli Pärna, b. 1947Kalev Pärna, b. 1950Kersti Pärna, b. 1960Priidu Pärna, b. 1971Ott Pärna, b. 1976

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 4 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Pärna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—374#87
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—320#133

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

In which country does Pärna have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 296 people named Pärna in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pärna.
How common is the name Pärna?
In India, the national register counted 108 people named Pärna, about 1 in 12 million residents.
How common is Pärna compared with other names?
In Estonia, Pärna is the 206th most common surname of 37,297 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, “Pärna” — the 206th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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