Praag
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Former name of Prayagraj
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɹəæɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Praag is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- NLNetherlands
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Praag is read(measured from records)
Praag is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English52%
Former name of Prayagraj.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch22%
Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Praag in Spanish.
- French5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Praag in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Elias van Praagb. 1884NLDutch actor (1884-1942)
- Eliazer Praagb. 1886NLHolocaust victim (born 1886)
- Kaetje Praagb. 1889Holocaust victim (born 1889)
- Jaap van Praagb. 1911NLDutch humanist (1911-1981)
- Philipp Praagb. 1915NLHolocaust victim (born 1915)
- Henri van Praagb. 1916NLpsychologist (1916-1988)
- Abraham Praagb. 1926NLHolocaust victim (born 1926)
- Helene Praagb. 1928NLHolocaust victim (born 1928)
- Fritz Praagb. 1940NLHolocaust victim (born 1940)
- Michael van Walt van Praagb. 1951NLDutch jurist and university professor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 123 | #16,154 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 48 | #9,173 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 38 | #50,401 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 25 | #78,618 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #23,454 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #375,353 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Praag come from?
- Prague (the capital city of the Czech Republic) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Praag?
- A machine transcription gives /pɹəæɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Praag mean?
- In English, Former name of Prayagraj.
- In which country does Praag have the most bearers?
- Praag is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/praagThe 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, “Praag”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.