Nuria
given name · Latin script
Meaning: advocación catalana de la Virgen María; quizá del protovasco, 'lugar del poblado entre cerros'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nuɾja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nuria is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 421(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.3K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.7K
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 Nuria 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- 1 in 421 (inferred from the name graph)
118,882 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Нурия in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more.
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)
advocación catalana de la Virgen María; quizá del protovasco, 'lugar del poblado entre cerros'
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nuria 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #56 | 118,882 | 1 in 421 | 120K | Nuria | 218 |
| RU Russia | #332 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | #173 | Нурия | 136 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #851 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 2.6K | Нурия | 41 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | listed | Нурия | 11 |
| CR Costa Rica | #95 | 3,928 | 1 in 1.3K | 3.9K | Nuria | 44 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #499 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Нурия | 14 |
| SV El Salvador | #460 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Nuria | 20 |
118,882 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)
Nuria 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.
Fuego del Señor
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Catalan: from a title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora de Nuria ‘Our Lady of Nuria’. Nuria is a place in the province of Gerona, where there is a famous image of the Virgin. This was long venerated as a ‘black madonna’, but cleaning in the 1940s removed the grime that had come from centuries of smoking candles, and restored the original bright colours.
as a word
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)
- Nuria Schoenberg Nonob. 1932ATdaughter of Arnold Schoenberg and spouse of Luigi Nono
- Núria Espertb. 1935ESSpanish actress and theatre director
- Núria de Gispertb. 1949ESSpanish politician
- Nuria Gonzálezb. 1962ESSpanish actress
- Núria Primsb. 1972ESSpanish actress
- Núria Trifolb. 1977ESvoice actress
- Nuria Llagostera Vivesb. 1980ESSpanish tennis player
- Núria Gagob. 1980ESSpanish actress
- Nuria Párrizas Díazb. 1991ESSpanish tennis player (born 1991)
- Nuria Brancacciob. 2000ITItalian 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 63 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 120K | #36 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 119K | #73 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3.9K | #193 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| ES Spain | Nombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Nuria?
- A machine transcription gives /nuɾja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Nuria have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 119 thousand people named Nuria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nuria.
- Where is Nuria most common?
- Nuria is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 421 people carrying it.
- What does the name Nuria mean?
- Recorded meaning: advocación catalana de la Virgen María; quizá del protovasco, 'lugar del poblado entre cerros'
- Is Nuria a male or female name?
- Nuria 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.
- How common is the name Nuria?
- In Spain, the national register counted 118,882 people named Nuria, about 1 in 421 residents.
- How common is Nuria compared with other names?
- In Spain, Nuria is the 56th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nuriaThe 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, “Nuria” — the 56th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.