Parel

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A neighbourhood of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Parel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M
  • RERéunion≈1 in 4.5K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,500 people, est.

Sources
120 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Réunion, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A neighbourhood of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Parel 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.

Where Parel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 43K—Parel52
FR France—≈350 est.≈1 in 197K41—4
US United States—2631 in 1.3M461Parel120
CH Switzerland—1861 in 45K186Parel11
RE Réunion#276≈180 est.≈1 in 4.5K—Parel1
EE Estonia—≈5 est.≈1 in 234K8Parel5

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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Parel is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Indonesia, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian

    Also written Parela, Parél

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Switzerland, United States

    Also written Parèl

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Philippines

    Also written Pärël

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Parel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Dutch, a pearl, a precious, round shelly concretion from oysters or other molluscs

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pag, stone or concrete wall or fence

    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)

19001920194019601980Cristina Parel, b. 1901Catherine Desage, b. 1950Gérald Parel, b. 1975

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 19 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Parel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020461#49,315
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010263#73,666
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000254#71,610
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024186#6,679
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190155—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196154—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192147—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191146—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199141—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194141—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198139—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195139—

Reference works 3

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 Parel mean, and where does it come from?
A neighbourhood of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Parel have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Parel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled parel.
How common is the name Parel?
In the United States, the national register counted 263 people named Parel in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
How common is Parel compared with other names?
In Réunion, Parel is the 276th most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Parel” — the 276th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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