Paraschiv
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/paraskʲ̩iv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paraschiv is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova≈1 in 14K
- ITItaly≈1 in 62K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paraschiv 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #104 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Paraschiv | 93 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Paraschiv | 32 |
| ES Spain | — | 727 | 1 in 69K | 727 | Paraschiv | 31 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2 | — | 16 |
| US United States | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | Paraschiv | 90 |
| NO Norway | — | 56 | 1 in 98K | 56 | — | 6 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); e-services.md — living 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vasile Paraschivb. 1928RORomanian social and political activist. (1928–2011)
- Christian Paraschivb. 1953RORomanian painter
- Mircea Paraschivb. 1954RORomanian rugby union footballer and coach
- Dorel Paraschivb. 1973RORomanian archaeologist (1973-)
- Catalin Paraschivb. 1978RORomanian actor
- Gabriel Paraschivb. 1978RORomanian footballer
- Sorin Paraschivb. 1981RORomanian former professional footballer
- Magdalena Paraschivb. 1982RORomanian handball player
- Amancio Paraschivb. 1992RORomanian professional kickboxer and amateur boxer
- Daniel-George Paraschivb. 1999ROfootballer
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 727 | #5,891 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 727 | #5,884 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #24,177 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Paraschiv?
- A machine transcription gives /paraskʲ̩iv/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Paraschiv have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Paraschiv in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paraschiv.
- How common is the name Paraschiv?
- In Spain, the national register counted 727 people named Paraschiv, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
- How common is Paraschiv compared with other names?
- In Romania, Paraschiv is the 104th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paraschiv?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paraschivThe 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, “Paraschiv” — the 104th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.