Burai
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɝaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Burai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Egyetlen Heves vármegyei Bura nevű településről tudunk, amely ótörök Bura ~ Bura személynévi eredetű.
- CZCzechia1 in 823K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
- INIndia1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 823K (inferred from the name graph)
640 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Egyetlen Heves vármegyei Bura nevű településről tudunk, amely ótörök Bura ~ Bura személynévi eredetű. A személynév jelentése ’tevecsődör’ volt. Ez magyar névadással (minden végződés vagy összetétel nélkül puszta személynévként) lett helységnévvé. Az ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képzővel ellátva eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnév alakult belőle. Az -ai magánhangzó-találkozás (hiátus) megszüntetése céljából kiesett az -a- magánhangzó, s így jött létre a Buri névalak. A Burai családnév -i végződése azonban lehet birtokjel is, akkor a jelentése ’Bura nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’. Mivel Bora nevű településről nincs följegyzésünk, a Borai név az -u- > -o- nyíltabbá válással magyarázható. Elterjedtsége: A Bura névvel együtt a Buri és Burai is a nyelvterület északkeleti részén gyakoribb.
Sources 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Where in the world(measured from records)
Burai 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 | 640 | 1 in 2.1M | 640 | Burai | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 27 | 1 in 7.8M | 27 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 13 | 1 in 823K | 13 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
640 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- István Buraib. 1951HUpainter (1951...2017)
- Pál József Buraib. 1974HUHungarian mathematician (born: 1974)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 640 | #7,643 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27 | #160,000 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 13 | #68,517 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #128,791 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #253,667 |
Reference works 2
- 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
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 Burai?
- A machine transcription gives /bɝaɪ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Burai mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Egyetlen Heves vármegyei Bura nevű településről tudunk, amely ótörök Bura ~ Bura személynévi eredetű.
- In which country does Burai have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 640 people named Burai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled burai.
- Where is Burai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Burai is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 823 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Burai?
- In India, the national register counted 640 people named Burai, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buraiThe 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, “Burai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.