Ura
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of undergraduate research assistant (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Ura is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Ura is also written โอ้รา in Thai.
- INIndia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- THThailand≈1 in 320Kfew records
- ESSpain1 in 1.9M
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 Ura 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ura in other scripts: Latin and Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ora in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 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)Initialism of undergraduate research assistant.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ura 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 383 | Ura | 20 |
| US United States | — | 8,368as Ora | 1 in 40K | 7.3K | Ora | 319 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 122 | Ora | 47 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 1 | Ora | 57 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Ura | 30 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Ora | 42 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Ora | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | #978 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Ora | 25 |
| AL Albania | — | 154as Ueda | 1 in 20K | 154 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 27 | 1 in 1.9M | 30 | Ura | 6 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)Ura 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 jpx-pro, end of a branch, top of a tree
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Russian, Ura. 13-14th Centuries.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In pi, Interpretation of many of the inflectional forms of uras (“breast”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of oure (“our”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-bal, rain
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)- Ura Iturralde Larrañagab. 1979ESBasque artist
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ura mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of undergraduate research assistant. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Ura?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 thousand people named Ura in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ura. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Is Ura a male or female name?
- Ura is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- How common is the name Ura?
- In Spain, the national register counted 27 people named Ura, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Ura compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Ura is the 978th most common given name of 26,737 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/uraThe 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, “Ura” — ranked 11247th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.