Parmenas
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The name Parmenas is Greek and means "steadfast" or "to abide" (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: ECN Government Gazette 8791, 2025
/paɾmẽɐʃ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Parmenas is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 28 people, counted by IBGE in 2022.
- NANamibia≈1 in 1.2M(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 7.6M
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 99M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
28 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Parmenas
- Portuguese:/paɾmẽɐʃ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swahili:/pɑɾmenas/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/paɾmenas/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The name Parmenas is Greek and means "steadfast" or "to abide."
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world
(measured from records)Parmenas 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 | 28 | 1 in 7.6M | 36 | Parmenas | 18 |
| US United States | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 74M | listed | Parmenas | 5 |
| MX Mexico | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 28M | — | Parmenas | 2 |
| NA Namibia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 1 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 99M | listed | — | 1 |
28 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; the ph-gutenberg1905-names 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)Parmenas 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.
As one of the first deacons, Parmenas represents the importance of service (diakonia) and charity within the Christian church, and the establishment of ordained ministry to care for the practical needs of the community.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)- Felix Ernest Parmenas van den Bosscheb. 1828BEResident in the Netherlands Indies
- Parmenas T TurnleyUSTurnley, Parmenas T; class of 1846
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Parmenas mean, and where does it come from?
- The name Parmenas is Greek and means "steadfast" or "to abide." Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Parmenas?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /paɾmẽɐʃ/; in Swahili /pɑɾmenas/; in Spanish /paɾmenas/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Parmenas a male or female name?
- Parmenas is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Parmenas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 28 people named Parmenas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled parmenas. After it come United States, Mexico, Namibia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Parmenas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 28 people named Parmenas in 2022, about 1 in 7.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Parmenas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/parmenasThe 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, “Parmenas” — ranked 35644th in Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.