Śura
given name · Latin script
Śura is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic سُورَة (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”).
- INIndia1 in 597K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 21K
- PLPoland1 in 41K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
2,221 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sura in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 1 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)From Arabic سُورَة (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Śura 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 2,221 | 1 in 597K | 2.2K | Sura | 108 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Sura | 5 |
| US United States | 1,219 | 1 in 273K | 1.4K | Sura | 141 |
| PL Poland | 935 | 1 in 41K | 473 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 532 | 1 in 85K | 532 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 516 | 1 in 21K | 516 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Sura | 11 |
| FI Finland | 68 | 1 in 82K | 68 | — | 1 |
2,221 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Śura mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic سُورَة (sūra, “chapter of the Qur'an”). Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H) and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Śura have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Śura, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sura.
- Where is Śura most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Śura is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Śura?
- In India, the national register counted 2,221 people named Śura, about 1 in 597 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9BuraThe 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, “Śura”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.