Nocêra

surname · Latin script

Nocêra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from Nocera Inferiore and Superiore in Salerno province, or Nocera Terinese in Catanzaro province, all named with Latin Nuceria.

  • CHSwitzerland1 in 65K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 68K
  • ARArgentina1 in 70K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,645 people, 2010

Record sources
94 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nocera in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States 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)

habitational name from Nocera Inferiore and Superiore in Salerno province, or Nocera Terinese in Catanzaro province, all named with Latin Nuceria.

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Nocêra 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 Nocêra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,6451 in 202K1.6KNocera94
BR Brazil7651 in 277K765Nocera67
AR Argentina6491 in 70K649Nocera43
CH Switzerland1291 in 65K129Nocera9
BE Belgium1121 in 105K112—1
UY Uruguay501 in 68K50Nocera12

1,645 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nocera

  • English surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Nocera, Nocéra

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nocêra under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nocêra mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from Nocera Inferiore and Superiore in Salerno province, or Nocera Terinese in Catanzaro province, all named with Latin Nuceria. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
In which country does Nocêra have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Nocêra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nocera.
Where is Nocêra most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nocêra is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 65 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nocêra?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,645 people named Nocêra in 2010, about 1 in 202 thousand 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, “Nocêra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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