Pair
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɛɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pair is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 155K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 59K
- KEKenya≈1 in 85K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 264 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pair 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Pair | 3 |
| US United States | 2,143 | 1 in 155K | 2.3K | Pair | 264 |
| KE Kenya | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Pair | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Pair | 19 |
| FR France | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 418K | 16 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Pair | 11 |
| IE Ireland | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Pair | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Pair 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 cau-drg-pro, lightning
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In French, even (divisible by two)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, cauldron, boiler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, peer (noble)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lou, to be afraid
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)
- Claude Pairb. 1934FRFrench computer scientist and mathematician
- Christian Pairb. 1956FRFrench politician
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,583 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,789 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 20 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Pair mean, and where does it come from?
- Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pair?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pair have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Pair in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pair.
- How common is the name Pair?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,143 people named Pair in 2010, about 1 in 155 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pairThe 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, “Pair”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.