Léra
surname · Latin script
Léra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘kind of rustic sledge’.
- MDMoldova1 in 15K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 63K
- USUnited States1 in 352K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
945 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lera 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)‘kind of rustic sledge’
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Léra 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.
945 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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 Léra mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘kind of rustic sledge’ Recorded by Wiktionary and Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft).
- Which countries have the most people named Léra?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 945 people named Léra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lera. After it come Moldova, Brazil, Latvia and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Léra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Léra is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Léra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 945 people named Léra in 2020, about 1 in 352 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Léra?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%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, “Léra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.