Prao
surname · Latin script
Meaning: proa
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Prao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4.2M
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.1M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
proa
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Prao 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 479 | Prao | 3 |
| FR France | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Prao | 16 |
| US United States | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 68M | — | Prao | 11 |
| BE Belgium | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Prao | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 30M | — | Prao | 4 |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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)
Prao is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a program where Swedish and Finnish high school students spend some weeks at a workplace in order to gain knowledge about working life
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, masculine singular active past participle of prati
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Alternative form of proa.
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 479 | #1,021 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Prao mean, and where does it come from?
- proa Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Prao?
- In the etymology graph, Proa is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Prao have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Prao in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prao.
- How common is the name Prao?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,200 people in Côte d’Ivoire have Prao as their first surname, about 1 in 22 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Prao?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/praoThe 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, “Prao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.