Sacra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of sacrum
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈsækɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sacra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 92K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 675K
- FRFrance≈1 in 46M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)
493 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
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)plural of sacrum
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)Sacra 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 | 493 | 1 in 675K | 493 | Sacra | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | 37 | 1 in 92K | 37 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 46M | — | Sacra | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 5 | Sacra | 1 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | 1 | — | — |
493 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; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the co-datosgov-candidates 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)Sacra 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.
In Portuguese, altar card (one of a set of three richly-ornamented cards, placed on the altar during a Tridentine mass, containing the texts of prayers)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of sacru
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xfa, sacred (nominative feminine of an unrecorded word)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of sacrer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, feminine singular of sacre
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)- James S. Albusb. 1935USnot in their usual nameengineer (1935-2011)
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 493 | #43,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 479 | #42,604 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 471 | #48,441 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 37 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Sacra mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of sacrum Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sacra?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsækɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sacra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 493 people named Sacra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sacra.
- Where is Sacra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sacra is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 92 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sacra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 493 people named Sacra in 2010, about 1 in 675 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/sacraThe 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, “Sacra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.