Parua
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɑɹuə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Parua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 944K(measured from records)
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 97K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Parua itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)
1,405 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Paria in IN India, PE Peru, JM Jamaica and 1 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Parua 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 1,405 | 1 in 944K | 1.4K | Paria | 61 |
| PE Peru | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Paria | 18 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 809K | — | Paria | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 114as Paria | 1 in 399K | 114 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Parua | 3 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 6 | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Paria | 1 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 2as Paria | 1 in 51K | 2 | — | — |
1,405 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling parua. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Parua is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, to scratch
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.4K | #4,196 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 6 | #30 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #6,640 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Parua?
- A machine transcription gives /pɑɹuə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Parua have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Parua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paria.
- How common is the name Parua?
- In India, the national register counted 1,405 people named Parua, about 1 in 944 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Parua?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paruaThe 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, “Parua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.