Yera

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Southern Africa: 'warrior'

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

/ʝeɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 67K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 647K
  • TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 38K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

747 people

Sources
118 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Trinidad & Tobago, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Southern Africa: 'warrior'.

Sources 1

  • African Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yera 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 Yera is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—7471 in 67K747Yera74
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈680 est.≈1 in 40K145——
US United States—5141 in 647K567Yera118
NG Nigeria—≈110 est.≈1 in 2M—Yera9
CU Cuba#623≈83 est.≈1 in 133K—Yera17
PR Puerto Rico—≈62 est.≈1 in 51K—Yera4
UY Uruguay—451 in 75K45—5
TT Trinidad & Tobago—≈32 est.≈1 in 38K—Yera1

747 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Yera is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Senegal, Mali

    Also written Yéra, Ÿērå

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yéra

  • Korean given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, United States

    Also written 예라, 예르, Ye-Ra, Yerra, Yeara

38 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Yera is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Asturian, first-person singular imperfect indicative of ser

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Nyanja, be white

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

  • Lee Ye-rab. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean tennis player

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)

FormalEstimado/a Yera,Dear Yera, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Yera,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Yera
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—106#6,733
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—106#15,121
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202094#53,155
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208#53,155
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20235—

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 Yera mean, and where does it come from?
Southern Africa: 'warrior'. Recorded by African Names.
How common is the name Yera?
In Spain, the national register counted 747 people named Yera, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
How common is Yera compared with other names?
In Cuba, Yera is the 623rd most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
How do you pronounce Yera?
A machine transcription gives /ʝeɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Yera have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 747 people named Yera, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yera.

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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, “Yera” — the 623rd most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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