Muera
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cooking salt
Muera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 68Kas Mura(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 538Kas Mura
- ARArgentina1 in 45Kas Mura
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Muera 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
19,513 named Mura
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina, as Mura
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mura in IN India, US United States, PL Poland and 2 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
(measured from records)cooking salt
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Muera 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 19,513as Mura | 1 in 68K | 20K | Mura | 30 |
| AR Argentina | 1,002as Mura | 1 in 45K | 1K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 810as Mura | 1 in 261K | 810 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 629as Mura | 1 in 61K | 315 | Mura | 1 |
| US United States | 618as Mura | 1 in 538K | 773 | Mura | 211 |
| CH Switzerland | 157as Mura | 1 in 54K | 157 | Mura | 11 |
| BE Belgium | 129as Mura | 1 in 91K | 129 | Mura | 9 |
19,513 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)Muera 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 French, third-person singular simple future of muer
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Muera mean, and where does it come from?
- cooking salt Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Muera have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Mura, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Muera most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Muera itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Argentina's: the national register counts about 1 in 45 thousand people named Mura.
- How common is the name Muera?
- In India, the national register counted 19,513 people named Mura, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mueraThe 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, “Muera”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.