The Pareja surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,377 people carried this name — #19,590 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 212,800 people counted. That is up 45% from 952 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Pareja surname
After Pareja, a municipality on Guadalajara, Spain
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Pareja» (Spanish), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,237 people named Pareja live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 129 people named Pareja.
Most of them — 84 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
43 people named Pareja live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Pareja,
with a public archive behind them.
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Juan de Pareja d. 1670 · artist -
Francisco Pareja 1600–1628 · writer -
Juan de Pareja 1606–1670 · artist
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Juan de Pareja 1610–1670 · artist
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José Manuel Pareja 1813–1865 · sailor -
Luis Pareja d. 1799 · historian
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Pareja.
- Pardini 929 · U.S. census
- Pardo 11,104 · U.S. census
- Pardon 1,253 · U.S. census
- Pare 3,464 · U.S. census
- Paredes 27,274 · U.S. census
- Paree 114 · U.S. census
- Parel 263 · U.S. census
- Parent 11,193 · U.S. census
- Parente 3,170 · U.S. census
- Parenteau 2,245 · U.S. census
- Parenti 1,711 · U.S. census
- Pares 450 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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