Paraba
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of parar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/paɾaβa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paraba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 385K
- ESSpain1 in 3.5Kas Barba
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Paraba itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
14,325 named Barba
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
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)
first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of parar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paraba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 14,325as Barba | 1 in 3.5K | 14K | Paraba | 4 |
| US United States | — | 11,043as Barba | 1 in 30K | 11K | Paraba | 10 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4,833as Barba | 1 in 3.5K | 4.8K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,851as Barba | 1 in 25K | 1.9K | Paraba | 7 |
| BO Bolivia | #661 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Paraba | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 550 | 1 in 385K | 550 | Paraba | 24 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 120as Barba | 1 in 28K | 120 | — | — |
14,325 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling barba. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Paraba is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, first/third-person singular imperfect preterite of parar
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 550 | #15,633 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 27 | #68,183 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 27 | #67,696 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 18 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Paraba mean, and where does it come from?
- first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of parar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paraba?
- A machine transcription gives /paɾaβa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Paraba have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Barba, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Paraba?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 550 people named Paraba, about 1 in 385 thousand residents.
- How common is Paraba compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Paraba is the 661st most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paraba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/parabaThe 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, “Paraba” — the 661st most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.