Pravia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Pravia, a municipality in Asturias
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɾabja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pravia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 75K
- UYUruguay1 in 33K
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.
- Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pravia, a municipality in Asturias
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pravia 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Juan Carlos Praviab. 1900UYUruguayan writer
- Miguel Angel Praviab. 1953UYUruguayan writer
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 280 | #12,756 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 280 | #12,733 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 154 | #1,138 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 103 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Pravia mean, and where does it come from?
- Pravia, a municipality in Asturias Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pravia?
- A machine transcription gives /pɾabja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Pravia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Pravia in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pravia.
- How common is the name Pravia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 280 people named Pravia, about 1 in 179 thousand residents.
- How common is Pravia compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Pravia is the 255th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/praviaThe 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, “Pravia” — the 255th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.