Purra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to bite (cut into something by clamping the teeth; attack with teeth)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
Purra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 36K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 729K
- ESSpain1 in 1.5M
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
155 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)to bite (cut into something by clamping the teeth; attack with teeth)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Purra is found
(measured from records)Purra 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.
155 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Purra is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, inflection of purrir:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, to call (rouse from sleep, awaken)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, testicle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, to bite
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)- Riikka Purrab. 1977FIFinnish politician
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Purra mean, and where does it come from?
- to bite (cut into something by clamping the teeth; attack with teeth) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Purra?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 155 people named Purra, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Spain and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Purra most common?
- Purra is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 36 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Purra?
- In Finland, the national register counted 155 people named Purra, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Purra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/purraThe 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, “Purra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.