Urra
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ura/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Urra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 21K
- ESSpain1 in 41K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Urra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #225 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Urra | 89 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,173 | 1 in 21K | 2.2K | Urra | 48 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,219 | 1 in 41K | 1.2K | Urra | 86 |
| US United States | — | 372 | 1 in 894K | 436 | Urra | 107 |
| BR Brazil | — | 85 | 1 in 2.5M | 85 | Urra | 28 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 401K | — | Urra | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 51 | 1 in 66K | 51 | — | 5 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Urra is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lmy, rain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, hurrah (expressing approval, appreciation or happiness)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, freeman of community; man of standing, landowner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of ūre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, person, individual
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, to growl, to snarl
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)
- Isidoro Urrab. 1916ESSpanish association football player (1916-2006)
- Raúl Urrab. 1930CLChilean basketball player
- Martin Urrab. 1931PHFilipino basketball player
- José Antonio Eslavab. 1936ESnot in their usual nameSpanish engraver
- Elizabeth Mercedes Rekas Urrab. 1949CLvictim of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet
- Javier Urrab. 1957ESSpanish psychologist and politician
- Pedro Morenob. 1980CUnot in their usual nameCuban actor and model
- Hernán Urrab. 1996ARArgentine athlet. Silver Medal Winner at 2016 Paralympic Games
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.2K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.2K | #3,721 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.2K | #3,718 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 436 | #51,542 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 372 | #55,255 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 277 | #66,676 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 85 | #71,518 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 51 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Urra?
- A machine transcription gives /ura/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Urra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Urra in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urra.
- How common is the name Urra?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 2,173 people named Urra, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Urra compared with other names?
- In Chile, Urra is the 225th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Urra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/urraThe 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, “Urra” — the 225th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.