Names of Paraguay PY

Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil — registered given names 2015 records María as the commonest given name in Paraguay; the names that most distinguish Paraguay from the rest of the world are Benitez, Gonzalez and Liz.

Written in Spanish, Guarani.

Population: 7.2M
Official registers: 1
Name forms recorded: 18K

BBuilt from 1 official register (2015), 18,094 name forms in our corpus, 7 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Paraguay are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Paraguay included.

How names work in Paraguay

2 naming traditions are in use in Paraguay, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Paraguay

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 3

Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil — registered given names 2015, 2015 — 10 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#	Name	Bearers recorded	Our rank
1	María	461K	—
2	Elizabeth	118K	4
3	Beatriz	109K	5
4	Ramona	82K	12
5	Liz	77K	10
6	Concepción	65K	—
7	Carolina	63K	11
8	Mabel	56K	22
9	Raquel	55K	13
10	Noemi	55K	16

Where the two lists disagree

6 of Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil — registered given names 2015's top 10 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.

Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil — registered given names 2015, 2015 on the left; every record we hold for Paraguay on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Paraguay

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Paraguay holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

SanSantaLizRamonElizabethBeatrizJuanJavierIsidroCarolinaConcepcionRaquelRamonaCesarDanielMabelArielDerlisJorgeHugo

Sized by how much of the difference between Paraguay's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.

Scripts & spelling

The best-attested names in Paraguay, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil — registered given names 20152015headline (given)
Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil (Paraguay) counts newborns: 10 given-name forms for 2015. Last verified 2026-07-25.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

Cultural Atlasweb
Guaraní peopleencyclopaedia
Guarani Submitted Namesnamesite
Naming customs of Hispanic Americaencyclopaedia
Paraguay Naming Customsgenealogy
Paraguayan Surnamesgenealogy
Spanish naming customsencyclopaedia

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Paraguay?: María, according to Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil — registered given names 2015 (2015), with 461,394 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Paraguay?: Because they count different people. Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil — registered given names 2015 (2015) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is María. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Ramon. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Paraguay?: No — 2 are described on this page (Guarani, Spanish), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Paraguay”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/PY (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil — registered given names 2015.