Gurra
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gurra is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Derived from Gustav by a colloquial formation changing certain /s/ consonant clusters into -rr-. Compare syster > syrra and smaskig > smarrig (“yummy, tasty”).
- CLChile≈1 in 1.2M(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.6M
- DEGermany≈1 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 Gurra 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
251 named Guerre, 2010
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Guerre in US United States, DE Germany.
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)
Derived from Gustav by a colloquial formation changing certain /s/ consonant clusters into -rr-. Compare syster > syrra and smaskig > smarrig (“yummy, tasty”).
Sources 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gurra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 251as Guerre | 1 in 1.3M | 251 | Guerre | 61 |
| BR Brazil | 131 | 1 in 1.6M | 131 | — | 9 |
| ES Spain | 67as Guerre | 1 in 747K | 67 | — | 10 |
| IN India | 52as Gurre | 1 in 26M | 52 | — | 5 |
| DE Germany | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Guerre | 22 |
| BE Belgium | 29as Guerre | 1 in 404K | 29 | — | 2 |
| CL Chile | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 1 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 14as Gurre | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 8as Guerre | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 4 |
251 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Gurra is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a diminutive of the male given name Gustav
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, cleft
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)
- Milto Sotir Gurrab. 1884ALAlbanian writer (1884-1972)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 171 | #109,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 163 | #108,734 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 131 | #51,558 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 107 | #142,819 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 77 | #27,050 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 39 | #51,730 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gurra mean, and where does it come from?
- Derived from Gustav by a colloquial formation changing certain /s/ consonant clusters into -rr-. Compare syster > syrra and smaskig > smarrig (“yummy, tasty”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Gurra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 251 people named Guerre, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gurra?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 131 people named Gurra, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gurra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurraThe 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, “Gurra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.