Sapara
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002
Sapara is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India. Recorded meaning: A province in Ceylon,1 also called Saparagamu.’ It is said to have derived its name from the inhabitants, the Saparā or Sabarā (Savarā), probably another name for the Veddas. Ibid., xeiv. 12.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)A province in Ceylon,1 also called Saparagamu.’ It is said to have derived its name from the inhabitants, the Saparā or Sabarā (Savarā), probably another name for the Veddas. Ibid., xeiv. 12.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
- YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sapara counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 284 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 94 | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 50 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 18 | — |
| US United States | — | listed | — |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)Sapara 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 Akan, a woman^s garment, oba ntama a woapam, ebia sin n^ fa a.s. sin 2 ; cf. gyawurusi
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Yoruba, Know nothing about the name
as a wordYorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)
In izh, pigtail (tail of a pig)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Oguntola Saparab. 1861NGNigerian physician (1861-1935)
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sapara mean, and where does it come from?
- A province in Ceylon,1 also called Saparagamu.’ It is said to have derived its name from the inhabitants, the Saparā or Sabarā (Savarā), probably another name for the Veddas. Ibid., xeiv. 12. Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H) and YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology).
- In which country does Sapara have the most bearers?
- Sapara is most frequently recorded in India.
What do you want to know about Sapara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saparaThe 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, “Sapara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.