La Parra Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, La Parra is usually a form of Parra. La Parra simply joins the particle La to Parra, a pattern common in Spanish naming. Name scholars give the meaning as “Grapevine, trellis”. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

The same family of names includes Parras and Parrilla.

Arms linked to Parra and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your La Parra family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.