Coira
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koiɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Attested in the Middle Ages as Cauria; from Hispano-Celtic *kauria, from Proto-Celtic *kawaros (“strong”).
- ARArgentina1 in 299K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2M
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 23K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
608 people
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
- Hispano-Celtic*kauria(measured from records)
- Proto-Celtic*kawaros“strong”(measured from records)
Attested in the Middle Ages as Cauria; from Hispano-Celtic *kauria, from Proto-Celtic *kawaros (“strong”).
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Coira 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 | — | 608 | 1 in 82K | 608 | Coira | 61 |
| US United States | — | 164 | 1 in 2M | 164 | Coira | 96 |
| AR Argentina | — | 152 | 1 in 299K | 152 | Coira | 32 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #645 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Coira | 5 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 374K | — | Coira | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 42 | 1 in 81K | 42 | Coira | 6 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Coira | 1 |
608 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Coira is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Chur (a town in Switzerland)
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)
- Beatriz Coirab. 1941ARProfessor of Petrology at the University of Jujuy
- Marco Coirab. 1950ITItalian military personnel
- Pepe Coirab. 1963ESSpanish film critic
- Jorge Coirab. 1971ESSpanish film director
- Pablo Coira Lojob. 1979ESSpanish footballer
- Amparo CoiraESresearcher
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 608 | #6,826 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 608 | #6,823 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 164 | #113,565 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 164 | #108,199 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 152 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 126 | #125,639 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 42 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Coira mean, and where does it come from?
- Attested in the Middle Ages as Cauria; from Hispano-Celtic *kauria, from Proto-Celtic *kawaros (“strong”). Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Coira?
- A machine transcription gives /koiɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Coira have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 608 people named Coira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coira.
- How common is the name Coira?
- In Spain, the national register counted 608 people named Coira, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Coira compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Coira is the 645th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Coira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coiraThe 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, “Coira” — the 645th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.