Paa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of polyacrylic acid
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/paa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Paa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 70Kfew records
- DEGermany≈1 in 190Kfew records
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 Paa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Paea in NZ New Zealand.
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)Initialism of polyacrylic acid.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Paa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Paa | 38 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Paa | 55 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Paa | 53 |
| BR Brazil | — | 394as Paea | 1 in 537K | 394 | Paa | 13 |
| US United States | — | 178 | 1 in 1.9M | 235 | Paa | 98 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Paea | 34 |
| RE Réunion | #711 | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Paa | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Paa 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.
Gazelle.
as a nameThe African book of names
In dag, 1. worker long time’ ‘not today not tomorrow’:
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In akl, thigh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cam, four
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wlo, attic, bay at the side of a house, on higher level than the floor
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)- Benjamin Henrichsb. 1997DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player (born 1997)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 285 | #27,617 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 235 | #85,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 178 | #101,247 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 153 | #107,565 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Paa mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of polyacrylic acid. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paa?
- In Spanish /paa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Paa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Paa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paa.
- How common is the name Paa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 178 people named Paa in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Paa compared with other names?
- In Réunion, Paa is the 711th most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paaThe 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, “Paa” — the 711th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.