Turra
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: headbutt
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tura/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Turra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 61K
- ARArgentina1 in 77K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
3,467 people
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A feather-like ornament projecting from a tied turban.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Turra is read(measured from records)
Turra is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish42%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Turra in Spanish.
- Portuguese35%
headbutt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.7%
A feather-like ornament projecting from a tied turban.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Turra in Italian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Turra 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.
3,467 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Turra is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, beating, bashing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, necrotic, numb
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( L, BN ap. A ), tturra ( Lc, BNc, S ap. A ). "Voz con que se llama a las gallinas y palomas" A . v. purra.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Antonio Turrab. 1730ITItalian physician and botanist (1730–1796)
- Romolo Turrab. 1899ITItalian association football player (1899-1942)
- Faustino Turrab. 1939ITItalian association football player (1939–2022)
- Eraldo Turrab. 1955ITItalian comedian and actor, part of the Gemelli Ruggeri comedy duo
- Giacomo Turrab. 1971ITItalian student, dead in Colombia for causes never truly clarified
- Daniela Turrab. 1977ITItalian association football player
- Jonathan Turrab. 2001CLChilean association football player
- Alexander TurraBRBrazilian carcinologist
- Cássio TurraUSresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0003-4051-3567
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.5K | #3,028 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 593 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 93 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- 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
- Where does the name Turra come from?
- A feather-like ornament projecting from a tied turban. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Turra?
- A machine transcription gives /tura/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Turra mean?
- In Portuguese, headbutt
- In which country does Turra have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Turra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled turra.
- How common is the name Turra?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,467 people named Turra, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/turraThe 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, “Turra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.