Urea
surname · Latin script
Meaning: urea (organic compound)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/uɾea/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Urea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 516K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 32K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈370 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
urea (organic compound)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Urea 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Urea 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 English, A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH₂)₂, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, urea, carbamide
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Urea. Urearen aurka ere berdin artu bear du. Ostolaiz 26.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- José Ureab. 1967ESSpanish bicycle racer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 97 | #28,082 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 97 | #28,046 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Urea mean, and where does it come from?
- urea (organic compound) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Urea?
- A machine transcription gives /uɾea/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Urea have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 370 people named Urea in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urea.
- How common is the name Urea?
- In Spain, the national register counted 97 people named Urea, about 1 in 516 thousand residents.
- How common is Urea compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Urea is the 733rd most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Urea?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ureaThe 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, “Urea” — the 733rd most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.