Curia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈku.ɾja/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Curia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 44K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 203K
- BEBelgium1 in 279K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
1,038 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Curia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,038 | 1 in 44K | 1K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 246 | 1 in 203K | 246 | Curia | 12 |
| US United States | 197 | 1 in 1.7M | 227 | Curia | 133 |
| BR Brazil | 185 | 1 in 1.1M | 185 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 42 | 1 in 279K | 42 | Curia | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | Curia | 5 |
1,038 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Curia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ancient senate house, Rome
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Italian, diocese
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, court
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)- Michele Curiab. 1510ca. 1510-ca. 1597 or approximately 1510-approximately 1597
- Francesco Curiab. 1538ITItalian painter (1538-1610)
- Eduardo Curiab. 1945ARArgentine economist
- Giulia CuriaITresearcher
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 246 | #14,113 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 246 | #14,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 227 | #87,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 206 | #84,631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 197 | #93,125 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 185 | #39,158 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 42 | #29,527 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| 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 Curia mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Curia?
- In the etymology graph, Curiale is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Curia?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈku.ɾja/ (Wiktionary); in English /ˈkjuːɹi.ə/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /kuɾjɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Curia have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Curia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Curia most common?
- Curia is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 44 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Curia?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,038 people named Curia, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Curia?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/curiaThe 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, “Curia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.