Sierrä

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sierrä is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. 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.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 563(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 1.2K
  • UYUruguay1 in 586

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 Sierrä 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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈87,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
394 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 563 (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SierräLatin(measured from records)
СьерраCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sierra in ES Spain, AR Argentina, CO Colombia and 1 more and Sierra- in US United States.

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)

Derivation of Sierrä: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sierrä
  1. Spanishsierra(measured from records)
  2. 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.

Sources 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 in the world(measured from records)

Sierrä 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.

Where Sierrä is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia≈87,000 est.≈1 in 56384Sierra187
BR Brazil81,206as Serra1 in 2.6K81K—2
ES Spain40,5261 in 1.2K41KSierra199
US United States35,7701 in 9.3K85KSierra-394
AR Argentina13,3991 in 3.4K13KSierra95
DO Dominican Republic≈9,600 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Sierra51
UY Uruguay5,7771 in 5865.8K—62

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sierrä is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

    Also written Sierra, 'Sierra, Sierra', Siërra, Sïerra

  • Thai surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written เซียรา, เซียร่า, Sïërrä, Siérrá, Sïêrrâ

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sierrä under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sierrä 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.
In which country does Sierrä have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 87 thousand people named Sierrä in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sierra.
How common is the name Sierrä?
In Spain, the national register counted 40,526 people named Sierrä, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.

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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, “Sierrä”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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