Pra
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Akan (Ghana): male name referring to the Pra River
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pra is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 370K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.4M
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 370K (inferred from the name graph)
≈570 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Prae in US United States, AU Australia and Prä in AT Austria.
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)
Akan (Ghana): male name referring to the Pra River.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pra 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 370K | 3.1K | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | listed | Prae | 122 |
| AR Argentina | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 169 | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 15 | — | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 7.9M | listed | — | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Prae | 48 |
| AT Austria | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Prä | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the african-names-stewart-1993 register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Pra is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma dialetal setentrional de Prato; pode indicar habitante de locais chamados Pra/Prà
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Prato
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Prakrit languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, masculine singular present transgressive of přít
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Initialism of Prudential Regulation Authority.
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)
- Jean Prab. 1952FRFrench politician
- Jean-Marc Prab. 1962FRFrench politician
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 16 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| NG Nigeria | African Names (Julia Stewart, 1993) | — | — | — |
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 Pra mean, and where does it come from?
- Akan (Ghana): male name referring to the Pra River. Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Pra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 572 people named Pra in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pra?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Pra in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/praThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Pra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.