Ura
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of undergraduate research assistant
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʊɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ura is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 30Kas Ora(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 32Kas Ora
- USUnited States1 in 40Kas Ora
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ura itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 323K (inferred from the name graph)
8,368 named Ora, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Thailand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ora in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of undergraduate research assistant.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ura 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8,368as Ora | 1 in 40K | 7.3K | Ora | 319 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Ura | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 122 | Ora | 47 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 1 | Ora | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | Ora | 57 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Ora | 42 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Ora | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | #978 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Ora | 25 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 323K | #1,038,777 | Ura | 37 |
| AL Albania | — | 154as Ueda | 1 in 20K | 154 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 27 | 1 in 1.9M | 30 | Ura | 6 |
8,368 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Ura is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In jpx-pro, end of a branch, top of a tree
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Russian, Ura. 13-14th Centuries.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In pi, Interpretation of many of the inflectional forms of uras (“breast”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of oure (“our”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-bal, rain
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)
- Ura Iturralde Larrañagab. 1979ESBasque artist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 187 | #28,814 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 123 | #28,814 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 27 | #45,760 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #26,993 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1928 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1913 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1898 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1895 | 15 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Ura mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of undergraduate research assistant. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ura?
- A machine transcription gives /ʊɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Ura a male or female name?
- Ura is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ura have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Ora, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ura?
- In Spain, the national register counted 27 people named Ura, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Ura compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Ura is the 978th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ura?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/uraThe 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, “Ura” — the 978th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.