Koura

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A freshwater crayfish of the genus Paranephrops, only found in New Zealand

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/koʊʊɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Koura is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 120K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 164K
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.3M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

163 people

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

alternative form of kura (“hen”)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

How Koura is read(measured from records)

Koura is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Arabic37%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Koura in Arabic.

  • English20%

    A freshwater crayfish of the genus Paranephrops, only found in New Zealand.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Japanese14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Koura in Japanese.

  • French8.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Koura in French.

  • Czech5.7%

    alternative form of kura (“hen”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Koura 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.

Where Koura is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1631 in 1.3M163—1
CZ Czechia891 in 120K89——
FI Finland341 in 164K34—2
IN India261 in 51M26Koura6
ES Spain151 in 3.3M15——
SE Sweden51 in 2M5——

163 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Koura is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Burkina Faso, Morocco

    Also written Kourà, Köura

  • Czech surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Kouřa

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Koura 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 Finnish, fist (hollow of the hand)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Māori, gold

    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)

1850190019502000Sōhei Kōra, b. 1891Takehisa Kōra, b. 1899Fathy Koura, b. 1919Rumiko Kōra, b. 1932Jan Koura, b. 1984Kengo Kōra, b. 1987Anthony Koura, b. 1993Tsubasa Koura, b. 1994

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Koura
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—1.9K#784
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—163#43,409
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—89#18,596
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—89#8,181
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—34#31,488
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—26#67,032
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—15#97,717
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5#55,946

Reference works 4

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

Where does the name Koura come from?
alternative form of kura (“hen”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Koura?
A machine transcription gives /koʊʊɹə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
What does the name Koura mean?
In English, A freshwater crayfish of the genus Paranephrops, only found in New Zealand.
In which country does Koura have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 163 people named Koura, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Koura most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Koura is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 120 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Koura?
In Brazil, the national register counted 163 people named Koura, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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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, “Koura”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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