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The PARA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,123 21638 0 4
United States (1880 census) 91 33552 0 2
Change since 1880 +1032 +11914 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 9 94718 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PARA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 227 6791 0.002 18
California 131 21029 0.000 4
Massachusetts 79 11583 0.001 12
New York 70 30469 0.000 4
Florida 66 28434 0.000 4
Top States for PARA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 227 6791 0.002 18
Massachusetts 79 11583 0.001 12
Louisiana 36 13330 0.001 8
Washington 46 17804 0.001 8
Arkansas 15 15146 0.001 6

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PARA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PARA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PARA in Illinois than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PARA by picking someone at random in Illinois than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PARA

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PARA surname.

Ethnic distribution of PARA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 756 67.32
White (Hispanic) 298 26.54
Asian/Pacific 30 2.67
Mixed Race 21 1.87
Black/African American 13 1.16
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.45

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PARA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

PARA is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PARA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PARA.

Similar names to PARA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PARA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PARA

The following words are slight variants of PARA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.