Traa
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/tɾaa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Traa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 22K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 35K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
499 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Traa 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 499 | 1 in 35K | 499 | Traa | 34 |
| NO Norway | 252 | 1 in 22K | 252 | Traa | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | Traa | 4 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Traa | 65 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Traa | 26 |
| BM Bermuda | — | — | — | Traa | 1 |
499 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)Traa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, a, everywhere. E x .: 5fi Xhe grease floats everywhere on the water’s surface. [mCUl [tnsn' to carry over an amount (as in vision mathematics). secured, royal seal. to take notes
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In gv, duration
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Khmer, to of take note, to note, to write down
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Khmer, to wind thread on a spool
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
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)- Pieter Cornelis van Traab. 1902NLDutch university teacher
- Kari Traab. 1974NONorwegian freestyle skier
- Naomi Traab. 2007NLDutch singer
- Hildegunn M S TraaNOartist
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 499 | #3,889 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 252 | #6,179 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #82,161 |
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
- How do you pronounce Traa?
- In Spanish /tɾaa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Traa have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 499 people named Traa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled traa.
- Where is Traa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Traa is densest in Norway — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Traa?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 499 people named Traa in 2007, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Traa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/traaThe 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, “Traa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.