Sheraga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃɛɹəɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sheraga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 8.7Kas שרגא(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 618Kas Shraga
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
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 Sheraga 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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 named Shraga, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled שרגא in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 2 more and Shraga in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sheraga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | שרגא | 3 |
| IL Israel | #595 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 1.2K | שרגא | 41 |
| US United States | — | 538as Shraga | 1 in 618K | 535 | Shraga | 102 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | שרגא | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | שרגא | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | שרגא | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | Shraga | 2 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Philipp Blochb. 1841DEnot in their usual nameGerman historian (1841-1923)
- Shraga Gorenb. 1898ILIsraeli politician (1898–1972)
- Shraga Kadarib. 1907ILIsraeli writer (1907–1982)
- Shraga Weilb. 1918ILIsraeli painter (1918-2009)
- Shraga Friedmanb. 1924ILIsraeli actor
- Shraga Gafnib. 1926ILwriter (1926–2012)
- Philip Bergb. 1927USnot in their usual nameAmerican astrologer and astrological writer (1927–2013)
- Shraga Barb. 1948DEIsraeli footballer
- Shraga Topolanskyb. 1950ILIsraeli footballer
- Shraga Weinbergb. 1966ILIsraeli wheelchair tennis player
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)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Sheraga?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛɹəɡə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sheraga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Shraga in Romania, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sheraga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sheraga is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 2.5 million people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sheraga?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 7 people named Sheraga, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
- How common is Sheraga compared with other names?
- In Israel, Sheraga is the 595th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sheraga?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sheragaThe 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, “Sheraga” — the 595th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.