Parra

surname · Latin script

Meaning: grapevine (the plant on which grapes grow)

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

/para/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Parra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 255(inferred from the name graph)
  • COColombia≈1 in 355
  • CLChile≈1 in 422

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈140,000 people, est.

#662 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
401 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 255 (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ParraLatin(measured from records)
ПарраCyrillic(measured from records)
ΠαρράGreek(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)

grapevine (the plant on which grapes grow)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Parra 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 Parra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#36≈140,000 est.≈1 in 35587Parra204
VE Venezuela#42≈110,000 est.≈1 in 255667Parra113
ES Spain#8448,8131 in 1K49KParra209
CL Chile#82≈43,000 est.≈1 in 422—Parra147
US United States—36,7651 in 9K37KParra401
EC Ecuador#12024,0541 in 70324KParra74
CR Costa Rica—5,6791 in 8985.7K—65

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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Parra is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Parrae, Parrä, Pärrä, Pårrä, Pàrra

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Pàrra, Paŕra, Párra, Parrà, Pärrä

  • Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, United States, Portugal

    Also written Pärrä, Párrá, Pãrrå, Pârrâ

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Parr-A

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain, Sweden

    Also written Pärrä

  • Estonian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Ecuador, Estonia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Pärrä, Pärra

56 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)

Parra is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In rob, squeeze out; crude expression for ‘hold onto’

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Latin, A bird of ill omen; perhaps the barn owl

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

  • In Portuguese, shoot or stem of a vine with leaves

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

  • In Afrikaans, alternative form of padda

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

  • In Basque, nonstandard form of barre

    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)

190019201940196019802000Nicanor Parra, b. 1914Violeta Parra, b. 1917Isabel Parra, b. 1939Ángel Parra, b. 1943Édgar Peña Parra, b. 1960Waldo L. Parra, b. 1965Gustavo Sánchez Parra, b. 1966Derek Parra, b. 1970Facundo Parra, b. 1985Margarita Muñoz, b. 1987

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)

FormalEstimado/a Parra,Dear Parra, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Parra,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 43 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Parra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—49K#93
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—49K#93
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201037K#943
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202036K#951
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200027K#1,203
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202424K#179
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—24K—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—5.7K#232
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995446—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1994400—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2008387—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1986384—

Reference works 5

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 Parra mean, and where does it come from?
grapevine (the plant on which grapes grow) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Parra?
A machine transcription gives /para/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Parra have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 138 thousand people named Parra in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled parra.
How common is the name Parra?
In Spain, the national register counted 48,813 people named Parra, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
How common is Parra compared with other names?
In Colombia, Parra is the 36th most common surname of 144,306 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, “Parra” — the 36th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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