Erana
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries
/ɝænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Erana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 59K
- ESSpain1 in 140K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Eraña in ES Spain, AR Argentina, UY Uruguay 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Erana 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Erana | 30 |
| IN India | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 5 | Erana | 4 |
| ES Spain | 358 | 1 in 140K | 358 | Eraña | 33 |
| US United States | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | listed | Erana | 57 |
| UY Uruguay | 57 | 1 in 59K | 57 | Eraña | 7 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 269K | — | Eraña | 7 |
| AR Argentina | 42 | 1 in 1.1M | 42 | Eraña | 11 |
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 — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)Erana is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Māori, a female given name, equivalent to English Ellen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Interpr?. Ordu onean gera zatez, / donzella linda erana; / noxbait noxbait akorda zatez / zurea nola naxana. Lazarraga A, 1146r.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Latvian, sala Lielbritānijā, Skotijā, Kilbrenana šaurums to šķir no Kintairas pussalas un pārējās Skotijas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, sala Atlantijas okeānā, Īrijas Donegolas grāfistes rietumu piekrastē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Raukura Erana Gilliesb. 1896NZNew Zealand Māori weaver (1896-1989)
- Erana Clarkb. 1961NZNew Zealand singer
- Erana Jamesb. 1999NZNew Zealand actress
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 57 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #143,546 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Erana?
- A machine transcription gives /ɝænə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Erana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Erana in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erana.
- Where is Erana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Erana is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 59 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Erana?
- In Spain, the national register counted 358 people named Erana, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Erana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eranaThe 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, “Erana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.