Varâ
surname · Latin script
Varâ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese vara (“rod”), from Latin vāra (“fork”).
- PEPeru≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 10K
- MXMexico≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vara in PE Peru, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 3 more.
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)- Spanishand(measured from records)
- Latinvāra“fork”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese vara (“rod”), from Latin vāra (“fork”).
Cited for this meaning 6
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Varâ 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Varâ mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese vara (“rod”), from Latin vāra (“fork”). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Varâ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Varâ in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vara.
- How common is the name Varâ?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,870 people named Varâ, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Varâ compared with other names?
- In Peru, Varâ is the 800th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/var%C3%A2The 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, “Varâ” — the 800th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.