Paar
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (n) pair, couple; (pron) a few
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Paar is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 79K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 108K
- SISlovenia1 in 150K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(n) pair, couple; (pron) a few
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Paar | 77 |
| US United States | 731 | 1 in 455K | 731 | Paar | 180 |
| CZ Czechia | 99 | 1 in 108K | 99 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 94 | 1 in 184K | 94 | — | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 807K | 13 | — | 16 |
| HR Croatia | 25 | 1 in 169K | 25 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 14 | 1 in 150K | 14 | — | 1 |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Paar 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.
In German, some; few; a few
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, 1) see Bär; 2) from a place name in Upper Bavaria
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Dutch, couple
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In English, A hypothesized shifting of four geologic blocks: northeast Africa west of Red Sea and north of the Ethiopian valley, the Arabian Peninsula, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa east of the rift valleys, which is used to explain the structural features of the area.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, pair (two similar or identical things taken together)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Countess Eleonore Paarb. 1835CZ(1835-1913) Czech noblewoman
- Eduard von Paarb. 1837ATAustrian soldier
- Mathilde Paarb. 1849DEGerman writer (1849-1899)
- Josef Paarb. 1913DEGerman amateur wrestler (1913-1997)
- Jack Paarb. 1918USAmerican author, radio and television comedian and talk show host (1918-2004)
- Vladimir Paarb. 1942HRCroatian physicist
- Karel Paarb. 1945CZcyclist
- Gisbert Paarb. 1948DEGerman politician
- Christof Paarb. 1963DEGerman cryptographer
- Laura Ioana Paarb. 1988RORomanian female tennis player
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)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 731 | #31,629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 716 | #34,148 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 709 | #30,970 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 99 | #16,961 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 98 | #7,795 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 94 | #19,963 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 25 | #20,292 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 21 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 14 | #16,468 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 13 | #120,601 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Paar mean, and where does it come from?
- (n) pair, couple; (pron) a few Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- In which country does Paar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Paar in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paar.
- How common is the name Paar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 731 people named Paar in 2010, about 1 in 455 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Paar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paarThe 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, “Paar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.