Héra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hera, the queen of the gods, the goddess of marriage and birth, and the patroness of women (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Héra is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 776 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- ISIceland1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 4.7K
- SESweden1 in 54K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
776 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hera 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)Hera, the queen of the gods, the goddess of marriage and birth, and the patroness of women
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Héra 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.
776 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; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Héra 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.
In Guarani, third-person possessed form of téra
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mqy, sea turtle
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Croatian, mit. najviša grčka božica i kraljica neba, Zeusova sestra i žena; zaštitnica braka i potomstva
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Héra Mirtelb. 1868FRFrench writer and feminist activist, editor
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Héra mean, and where does it come from?
- Hera, the queen of the gods, the goddess of marriage and birth, and the patroness of women Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Héra a male or female name?
- Héra 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 named Héra?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 776 people named Héra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hera. After it come Albania, Sweden, Iceland and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Héra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Héra is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Héra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 776 people named Héra in 2020, about 1 in 429 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Héra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A9raThe 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, “Héra” — ranked 14982nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.