Paradise
loc · Latin script
Meaning: The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Paradise is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Canada.
- CACanada
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 317 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paradise counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | — | 1 | Paradise | 36 |
| US United States | — | 4.2K | Paradise | 317 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Paradise | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 404 | Paradise | 86 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | — | Paradise | 8 |
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: Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)
Paradise 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 English, garden of Eden
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latin, vocative singular of paradīsus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, dative singular of paradīs
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)
- John Paradiseb. 1743British linguist (1743-1795)
- Phil Paradiseb. 1905USAmerican painter (1905–1997)
- Bob Paradiseb. 1944USAmerican ice hockey player
- Dick Paradiseb. 1945USAmerican ice hockey player
- Michelle Paradiseb. 1972USAmerican actor, writer and producer
- Andrew Paradiseb. 1982USAmerican entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of Skillz
- Richard Paradiseactor
- Tom ParadiseUSAmerican geomorphologist and professor of geosciences
- John ParadiseEnglish cleric, author of Hadadrimmon, sive, Threnodia anglicana ob regicidium
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 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,933 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.1K | #7,713 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,609 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 404 | #13,314 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Paradise mean, and where does it come from?
- The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Paradise have the most bearers?
- Paradise is most frequently recorded in Canada, where it is most often spelled paradise.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paradiseThe 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, “Paradise”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.