Ureke
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɝk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ureke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 265M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 313Kas Ureche
- DKDenmark1 in 367Kas Ureche
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 Ureke 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 265M (inferred from the name graph)
160 named Ureche
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Уреке in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ureke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 160as Ureche | 1 in 313K | 160 | — | — |
| US United States | 137as Ureche | 1 in 2.4M | 137 | Ureke | 2 |
| RU Russia | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Уреке | 59 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 869K | — | Уреке | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 16as Ureche | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 13as Ureche | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | — |
| IN India | 5 | 1 in 265M | 5 | — | — |
160 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Ureke is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, "(AN-gip), equilibrio, hablando de lanchas que están 'a la rema', sin salirse de un punto, para pescar. Urekean (AN-gip), en equilibrio; vulg., a la rema" A . v. oreka.
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #24,982 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #182,099 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ureke?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɝk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ureke have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 160 people named Ureche, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ureke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ureke is densest in India — about 1 in 265 million people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ureke?
- In India, the national register counted 5 people named Ureke, about 1 in 265 million 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/urekeThe 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, “Ureke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.