Bura
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: rebuke
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: naampy, 2015
/ɓuɾa/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Bura is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 9.2K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 21K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 77K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)bora (wind)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bura is read
(measured from records)Bura is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bura in Hindi.
- Polish17%
rebuke
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bura in English.
- Ukrainian13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bura in Ukrainian.
- Swahili5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bura in Swahili.
- Croatian5.0%
bora (wind)
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
sveslavenski naziv iz praslav. doba za »vihor, zao vjetar (prema definiciji u stcslav.)«
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-CroatianSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Bura is found
(measured from records)Bura 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Bura is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
— žr. Būras
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In German, toponymischer Familienname; Herkunft unklar, im Atlas als weiterer Fall zu Siedlungsnamen mit -ow/-au behandelt; 52.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In trk-pro, soul of a sacrificial animal (horse)
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)- John Burab. 1944DECatholic bishop in the United States (1944–2023)
- Goni Modu Burab. 1960NGNigerian politician
- Josipa Burab. 1985HRCroatian basketball player (born 1985)
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)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Bura come from?
- bora (wind) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bura?
- In Swahili /ɓuɾa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bura?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Bura in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bura. After it come Nigeria, Poland, India and Romania; the country table on this page ranks them.
- What does the name Bura mean?
- In Polish, rebuke
- How common is the name Bura?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,861 people named Bura in 2026, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bura?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buraThe 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, “Bura”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.