Moure
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to move (to cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Moure is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 17K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 40K
- BRBrazil1 in 392K
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
- 147 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
2,992 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to move (to cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moure 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 | 2,992 | 1 in 17K | 3K | Moure | 112 |
| AR Argentina | 1,136 | 1 in 40K | 1.1K | Moure | 57 |
| FR France | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 125K | 74 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 540 | 1 in 392K | 540 | Moure | 58 |
| US United States | 427 | 1 in 779K | 738 | Moure | 147 |
| UY Uruguay | 349 | 1 in 9.7K | 349 | Moure | 20 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Moure | 3 |
| GA Gabon | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 4 | — | — |
2,992 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
Moure 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 Czech, vocative singular of mour
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)
- José María Cordovez Moureb. 1835COColombian writer and historian (1835-1918)
- Luis Moure-Mariñob. 1915ESSpanish author
- Rafael Valekb. 1932COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer (1932-2013)
- José Alfonso Moure Romanillob. 1949ESSpanish historian, archaeologist, writer and professor of Prehistory
- Gonzalo Moureb. 1951ESSpanish writer
- Erín Moureb. 1955CACanadian poet
- Julio Gallego Moureb. 1962ESSpanish politician
- Teresa Moureb. 1969ESGalician writer
- Pierre Moureb. 1983FRFrench actor
- Lucía Rivasb. 2007ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3K | #1,712 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3K | #1,712 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 738 | #33,269 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 540 | #15,880 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 458 | #44,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 427 | #49,268 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 349 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 122 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 91 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 77 | — |
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 Moure mean, and where does it come from?
- to move (to cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Moure have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Moure, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moure.
- Where is Moure most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Moure is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 9.7 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Moure?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,992 people named Moure, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moureThe 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, “Moure”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.