Paire
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: feminine singular of pair
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɛʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paire is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 276K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.3M
- BEBelgium1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 276K (inferred from the name graph)
167 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine singular of pair
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Paire is read(measured from records)
Paire is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French61%
feminine singular of pair
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English18%
Obsolete form of pair.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Paire in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paire 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 167 | 1 in 1.3M | 167 | Paire | 21 |
| AR Argentina | 165 | 1 in 276K | 165 | Paire | 22 |
| US United States | 122 | 1 in 2.7M | 134 | Paire | 7 |
| ES Spain | 14 | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | Paire | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | — | — |
167 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Paire is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, A pair; a group of two similar, identical, or matching items or creatures:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of pairar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, father
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)
- Pepper Paireb. 1924USAll-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Giacomo Paireb. 1935ITItalian politician
- Nicole Paireb. 1943FRFrench politician
- Alain Paireb. 1949FRjournalist, penman, art critic, gallerist (1949-)
- Thomas Paireb. 1985FRFrench tennis player (1985-)
- Benoît Paireb. 1989FRFrench tennis player (born 1989)
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 167 | #42,527 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 165 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 134 | #131,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 122 | #137,327 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 113 | #136,783 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #95,508 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Paire mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of pair Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Paire?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Paire have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 167 people named Paire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paire.
- Where is Paire most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paire is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 276 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paire?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 167 people named Paire, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Paire?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paireThe 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, “Paire”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.