Paura
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Paura is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Rsi Paura Atreya (५); a Gotrakara (P); a king.
- ARArgentina1 in 127K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 134K
- UYUruguay1 in 199K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)
1,036 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Paurá in BR Brazil.
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)
Rsi Paura Atreya (५); a Gotrakara (P); a king
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paura 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.
1,036 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname), counting the spelling paura. 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)
Paura 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.
- žr. Paurys
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
filler; increaser.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In tpi, powder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, fear
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, ir Paūra), Pn, Šiu 6;
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)
- Roberto Paurab. 1986ITItalian journalist
- Angelo PauraITauthor of Biblioteche Oggi
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #8,968 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 357 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 133 | #128,249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 121 | #141,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 108 | #141,788 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #63,956 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #39,378 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 17 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Paura mean?
- Recorded meaning: Rsi Paura Atreya (५); a Gotrakara (P); a king
- In which country does Paura have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Paura, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paurá.
- Where is Paura most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paura is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 127 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paura?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,036 people named Paura, about 1 in 204 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pauraThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Paura”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.