Lera
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Noble y fuerte
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lera is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- BYBelarus≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 15K
- RURussia≈1 in 17K
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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belarus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Noble y fuerte
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lera 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Lera | 41 |
| CN China | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Lera | 6 |
| BY Belarus | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Lera | 8 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Lera | 24 |
| US United States | 945 | 1 in 352K | 939 | Lera | 95 |
| MD Moldova | 220 | 1 in 15K | 220 | — | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 8 | — | 2 |
| LV Latvia | 30 | 1 in 63K | 30 | — | 2 |
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; e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Lera is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In frd, sun; dry season following the east monsoon in the months of August and September
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Galician, first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of ler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, mud, in particular relatively dry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, sledge, sleigh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In goh, teaching, lore
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)
- Lera Millard Thomasb. 1900USAmerican politician (1900-1993)
- Lera Boroditskyb. 1976BYAmerican psychologist
- Lera Lynnb. 1984USAmerican singer-songwriter
- Lera MilesGBbiologist, zoologist, conservationist and climate change mitigation researcher
- Lera Jane MilesGBresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 939 | #12,946 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 220 | #650 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 73 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 70 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 65 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 63 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 62 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 62 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 60 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 57 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1926 | 56 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 56 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Lera mean, and where does it come from?
- Noble y fuerte Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- What are other forms of the name Lera?
- In the etymology graph, Valerie, Valeria and Valérie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Lera?
- In the United States, the national register counted 945 people named Lera in 2020, about 1 in 352 thousand residents.
- Is Lera a male or female name?
- Lera is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lera have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Lera in Russia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lera.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leraThe 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, “Lera”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.