Traba
surname · Latin script
Meaning: catch (concealed difficulty)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɾaβa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Traba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 68K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 68K
- TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 6.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
734 people
Highest-authority source
Trinidad & Tobago, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
catch (concealed difficulty)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Traba 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.
734 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Traba is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bwa, water
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)
- Pedro Froilaz de Trabab. 1075ESCount of Traba
- Marta Trabab. 1930ARColombian Argentinean art critic of Galician parentage, academic (1930–1983)
- José Manuel Traba Lópezb. 1957ESSpanish association football player
- Robert Trabab. 1958PLPolish historian
- Amada Traba Díazb. 1958ESSpanish politician and sociologist
- José Manuel Traba Fernándezb. 1966ESSpanish politician
- Emperatriz Wilsonb. 1966CUnot in their usual nameCuban distance runner
- Nelson Trabab. 1967UYUruguayan poet
- Gómez González de TrabaGalician nobleman
- Juan TrabaESornithologist
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 734 | #5,828 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 734 | #5,828 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 665 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 417 | #20,032 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 305 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #171,164 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #189,401 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Traba mean, and where does it come from?
- catch (concealed difficulty) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Traba?
- A machine transcription gives /tɾaβa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Traba?
- In the etymology graph, Trave is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Traba have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 734 people named Traba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled traba.
- How common is the name Traba?
- In Spain, the national register counted 734 people named Traba, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/trabaThe 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, “Traba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.