Púa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sharp point, prong, spike, pick
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Púa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 18K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 94K
- ESSpain1 in 118K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
621 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pua in US United States, ES Spain, BR Brazil.
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)
sharp point, prong, spike, pick
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Púa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 621 | 1 in 536K | 653 | Pua | 17 |
| ES Spain | 423 | 1 in 118K | 423 | Pua | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 191 | 1 in 18K | 191 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 190 | 1 in 239K | 190 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 99 | 1 in 2.1M | 99 | Pua | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 8 | 1 in 94K | 8 | — | — |
621 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: 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Púa 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 Icelandic, to blow, to breathe out
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of puír:
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 Púa mean, and where does it come from?
- sharp point, prong, spike, pick Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Púa?
- In the etymology graph, Puya is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Púa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 621 people named Púa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pua.
- Where is Púa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Púa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Púa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 621 people named Púa in 2010, about 1 in 536 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/p%C3%BAaThe 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, “Púa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.