Pára
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: vapor
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Pára is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 29K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 91K
- ESSpain1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
2,337 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Para in BR Brazil, US United States.
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)steam, vapor/vapour
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Pára is read
(measured from records)Pára is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Czech62%
vapor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hungarian28%
steam, vapor/vapour
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pára 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.
2,337 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Pára is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of para. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, as though; as if; only; same as; like; similar; just like; such as one would expect
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Iloko, the sprouting embryo of the coconut, before the cotyledon appears
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pag, like, the same; be the same
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Josef Párab. 1873CZCzech financial ministry official and bank expert (1873-??)
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 51 | #28,774 |
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
- Where does the name Pára come from?
- steam, vapor/vapour Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Pára mean?
- In Czech, vapor
- In which country does Pára have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Pára, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled para.
- Where is Pára most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pára is densest in Poland — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pára?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,337 people named Pára, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pára?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A1raThe 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, “Pára”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.