Pá

surname · Latin script

Meaning: shovel, scoop

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 334K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 450K
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 814K

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)

739 people, 2010

Record sources
91 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 334K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pa in BR Brazil, US United States, CO Colombia and 2 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)

shovel, scoop

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Pá 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 Pá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7391 in 450K2.1KPa91
BR Brazil6341 in 334K634Pa52
CO Colombia≈36 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Pa23
GT Guatemala≈21 est.≈1 in 814K—Pa11
AO Angola≈19 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Pa2

739 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)

Pá is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, India, Italy

    Also written Pa, Pã, Pă, Pâ, Pà

  • Burmese surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma)

    Also written Pä, Pà, Pă, Pâ, Pą

  • French given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada

    Also written P-A, Pa, Pã, Pà, Pâ

11 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)

Pá 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 Portuguese, shovel; spade (tool for digging and moving material)

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

  • In ko-pro, place where, circumstance (aux. word)

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In jpx-pro, leaf

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Czech, abbreviation of pátek (“Friday”)

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

  • In Irish, pay, wages (money given in return for work)

    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)
  • Ba Deshennot in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 102742
  • Ba Shinot in their usual namewife of Guominjing
  • Ba Hulunot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 403438

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pá mean, and where does it come from?
shovel, scoop Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
In which country does Pá have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 739 people named Pá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pa.
Where is Pá most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pá is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 334 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pá?
In the United States, the national register counted 739 people named Pá in 2010, about 1 in 450 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A1

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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, “Pá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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