Šierra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Šierra is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 40,526 people, counted by INE. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish sierra, from Latin serra, "saw," referring to the saw-tooth profile of the crestline of the range seen from a distance.
- UYUruguay1 in 586(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.2K
- ARArgentina1 in 3.4K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 470 (measured from records)
- 1 in 586 (inferred from the name graph)
40,526 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sierra in US United States, ES Spain.
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)- Spanishsierra(measured from records)
- Latinserra(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish sierra, from Latin serra, "saw," referring to the saw-tooth profile of the crestline of the range seen from a distance.
Cited for this meaning 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Šierra is found
(measured from records)Šierra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 40,526 | 1 in 1.2K | 41K | Sierra | 105 |
| US United States | 35,770 | 1 in 9.3K | 85K | Sierra | 470 |
| AR Argentina | 13,399 | 1 in 3.4K | 13K | — | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 5,777 | 1 in 586 | 5.8K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | 4,759 | 1 in 3.6K | 4.8K | — | 24 |
40,526 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INEC — civil registry names. 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 Šierra mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish sierra, from Latin serra, "saw," referring to the saw-tooth profile of the crestline of the range seen from a distance. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Šierra a male or female name?
- Šierra 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Šierra?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 41 thousand people named Šierra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sierra. After it come United States, Argentina, Uruguay and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šierra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šierra is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 586 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šierra?
- In Spain, the national register counted 40,526 people named Šierra, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1ierraThe 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, “Šierra” — ranked 113th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.