Para
loc · Latin script
Meaning: name of several kings (P); Rama (N); Siva (N)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Para is a name 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)name of several kings (P); Rama (N); Siva (N)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Para is found
(measured from records)Para 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)Para 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.
Indra (५); a king (P); Aghora (N); Dattatreya
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
bringing across; fulfilling; beyond.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
far; remote; another; adversary.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In tuw-pro, 1 place for the hut, floor 2 perch 3 lattice(d)
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In tuw-pro, 1 saddle arc 2 sleigh 3 thill
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)- Józef Parab. 1922PLPolish actor (1922–2020)
- Armando Parab. 1929ITcyclist
- Jean-Baptiste Parab. 1956FRFrench poet
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)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Para mean, and where does it come from?
- name of several kings (P); Rama (N); Siva (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Para?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Para, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled para. After it come Poland, United States, India and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Para most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Para 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 Para?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,337 people named Para, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Para?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paraThe 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, “Para”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.