Parra

36,137 people in the United States were counted with the surname Parra in the 2020 census, making it the 951st most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,271.

By the numbers

People: 36,137
Rank: 951st
How common: 1 in 8,271
Per 100,000: 12.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Parra described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 92.4%
White, not Hispanic 6.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Parra

Violeta Parra (1917–1967)Chilean musician and folklorist
Nicanor Parra (1914–2018)Chilean writer, poet, mathematician, and physicist
Arantxa Parra Santonja (born 1982)Spanish tennis player
Derek Parra (born 1970)American speed skater
Édgar Peña Parra (born 1960)Venezuelian Catholic prelate
Ángel Parra (1943–2017)Chilean musician
Rajiv van La Parra (born 1991)Dutch association football player
Pim de la Parra (1940–2024)Surinamese-Dutch film director

People named Parra with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Parra

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.