Nara
given name · Latin script
Meaning: man; male; eternal spirit pervading the universe
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 11K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 29K
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 Nara 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
30,788 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 나라 in KR South Korea and Նառա in AM Armenia.
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)
man; male; eternal spirit pervading the universe.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #749 | 30,788 | 1 in 6.9K | 31K | Nara | 144 |
| KR South Korea | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | 나라 | 75 |
| US United States | — | 1,592 | 1 in 209K | 1.4K | Nara | 113 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 108 | Nara | 49 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,291 | 1 in 39K | 1.3K | Nara | 55 |
| AM Armenia | #297 | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Նառա | 32 |
| PY Paraguay | #852 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Nara | 13 |
30,788 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Nara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
» Rsi Nara Bharadvaja (V); name of many men (P);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In English, lang., Ethiopia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, city, Japan
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Japanese: an oak tree
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Fiore di melograno
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Nara Leãob. 1942BRBrazilian singer (1942–1989)
- Nara Araújob. 1945CUb. 1945 in La Habana, Cuba; essayist and literary critic
- Nara Sudjanab. 1950IDbadminton player
- Oh Na Rab. 1974KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born 1974)
- Lee Na-rab. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, born 1980
- Jang Narab. 1981KRSouth Korean singer and actress
- Nara Falcónb. 1981MXMexican swimmer
- Nara Backb. 1990KRSouth Korean singer
- Kwon Na-rab. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
- Bae Na-rab. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actor
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 82 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 428 | #52,367 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 349 | #58,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 316 | #59,769 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 108 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Nara mean, and where does it come from?
- man; male; eternal spirit pervading the universe. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Is Nara a male or female name?
- Nara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nara have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Nara, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nara.
- Where is Nara most common?
- Nara is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nara?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 30,788 people named Nara in 2022, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Nara compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Nara is the 749th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naraThe 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, “Nara” — the 749th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.