Mera
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: feminine singular of mero
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 38as Mora(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 220as Mora
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 360as Mora
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 Mera 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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- #238 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 439 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
135,368 named Mora
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mora in CR Costa Rica, VE Venezuela, US United States and 2 more and Moura in PT Portugal.
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)
habitational name for someone from the village of Mera (Hungarian Mera) in Transylvania.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mera is read(measured from records)
Mera is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish64%
feminine singular of mero
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mera in Hindi.
- English6.7%
The seventh month of Meitei traditional lunar calendar.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mera 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #3 | 135,368as Mora | 1 in 38 | 135K | Mora | 151 |
| CO Colombia | #61 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 555 | 71 | Mora | 189 |
| VE Venezuela | #58 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 360 | — | Mora | 117 |
| EC Ecuador | #4 | 76,844as Mora | 1 in 220 | 77K | Mora | 95 |
| US United States | — | 57,464as Mora | 1 in 5.8K | 57K | Mora | 439 |
| PT Portugal | #58 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 539 | listed | Moura | 160 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Mera | 11 |
135,368 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Mera is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name for someone from the village of Mera (Hungarian Mera) in Transylvania.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from any of the several placed named Mera in Galicia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
a variant of Maryaam and
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Finnish, synonym of tamma (“mare”)
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)
- Juan León Merab. 1832ECEcuadorian writer, artist and politician (1832-1894)
- Cipriano Merab. 1897ESSpanish anarchist and army officer (1897–1975)
- Koichi Merab. 1933JPJapanese academic
- Raúl Merab. 1936UYUruguayan basketball player
- Rosalía Merab. 1944ESSpanish businesswoman; co-founder of Inditex, Zara (1944-2013)
- Yoshikazu Merab. 1971JPJapanese countertenor singer
- Jacques Toukhmanianb. 1984COnot in their usual nameColombian actor
- María Merab. 1986ESSpanish actor
- Ioan Merab. 1987RORomanian footballer
- Jeremy Arévalob. 2005ESnot in their usual nameEcuadorian-Spanish footballer
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 66 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 52K | #61 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,721 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,490 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,635 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 572 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 21 | #3,547 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 6 | #110 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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 Mera mean?
- In Spanish, feminine singular of mero
- Where does the name Mera come from?
- habitational name for someone from the village of Mera (Hungarian Mera) in Transylvania. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mera have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 135 thousand people named Mora, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mera?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 135,368 people named Mora, about 1 in 38 residents.
- How common is Mera compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Mera is the 3rd most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mera?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meraThe 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, “Mera” — the 3rd most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.