Lurá
surname · Latin script
Lurá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from a farmstead in Rogaland named Lura, from Old Norse Ludrar, from the plural of liidr ‘trough’, referring to a bay or inlet.
- USUnited States1 in 116K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 138K
- ALAlbania1 in 26K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
2,864 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lura in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 6 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)
habitational name from a farmstead in Rogaland named Lura, from Old Norse Ludrar, from the plural of liidr ‘trough’, referring to a bay or inlet.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lurá 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 | — | 2,864 | 1 in 116K | 2.8K | Lura | 272 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Lura | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Lura | 33 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 3 | Lura | 7 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Lura | 9 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Lura | 5 |
| CU Cuba | #948 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Lura | 2 |
| AL Albania | — | 117 | 1 in 26K | 117 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Lura | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Lura | 1 |
2,864 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; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 Lurá mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a farmstead in Rogaland named Lura, from Old Norse Ludrar, from the plural of liidr ‘trough’, referring to a bay or inlet. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lurá have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Lurá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lura.
- Where is Lurá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lurá is densest in Albania — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lurá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,864 people named Lurá in 2020, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
- How common is Lurá compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Lurá is the 948th most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lur%C3%A1The 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, “Lurá” — the 948th most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.