Nuria
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nuria is a given name, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Catalan, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: advocación catalana de la Virgen María; quizá del protovasco, 'lugar del poblado entre cerros'.
- ESSpain1 in 421◐
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.3K
- KGKyrgyzstan1 in 3.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈132K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 221 ●
- 1 in 421 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
328K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Нурия in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more, נוריה in IL Israel, IQ Iraq, Nuriya in IN India and Нурія in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
advocación catalana de la Virgen María; quizá del protovasco, 'lugar del poblado entre cerros'
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #57 | 118,882 | 199K rec. | 1 in 421 | 120K | Nuria | 206 |
| RU Russia | #331 | 93,122 | 35K rec. | — | #173 | Нурия | 124 |
| AR Argentina | — | 26,585 | 16K rec. | — | 27 | Nuria | 84 |
| MX Mexico | — | 8,758 | 6.2K rec. | — | 13 | Nuria | 122 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #501 | 6,978 | 3K rec. | — | — | Нурия | 14 |
| PE Peru | — | 6,823 | 5K rec. | — | — | Nuria | 55 |
| SV El Salvador | #352 | 5,440 | 4.4K rec. | — | — | Nuria | 19 |
| CR Costa Rica | #100 | 3,928 | 9.9K rec. | 1 in 1.3K | 3.9K | Nuria | 43 |
| IN India | — | 3,878 | 1.3K rec. | — | 5 | Nuriya | 12 |
| UA Ukraine | #842 | 3,425 | 3.3K rec. | — | — | Нурія | 20 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 2,870 | 1.2K rec. | — | 520 | Nuria | 22 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #953 | 2,600 | 8K rec. | 1 in 7.3K | 2.6K | Нурия | 39 |
Roughly 119K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 421). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish766K78%
- Catalan119K12%
- Portuguese30K3%
- English27K3%
- French6.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 765,599 | 78% |
| Catalan | 119,042 | 12% |
| Portuguese | 30,007 | 3% |
| English | 26,669 | 3% |
| French | 6,215 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Nuria is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Fuego del Señor
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Catalan: from a title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora de Nuria ‘Our Lady of Nuria’. Nuria is a place in the province of Gerona, where there is a famous image of the Virgin. This was long venerated as a ‘black madonna’, but cleaning in the 1940s removed the grime that had come from centuries of smoking candles, and restored the original bright colours.
as a word
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 2 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1934 | 10 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 4 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1939 | 2 |
| 1940 | 1 |
| 1941 | 3 |
| 1942 | 3 |
| 1943 | 1 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1945 | 4 |
| 1946 | 8 |
| 1947 | 4 |
| 1948 | 7 |
| 1949 | 2 |
| 1950 | 1 |
| 1951 | 3 |
| 1952 | 2 |
| 1953 | 1 |
| 1954 | 3 |
| 1955 | 1 |
| 1956 | 3 |
| 1958 | 2 |
| 1959 | 4 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 1 |
| 1962 | 2 |
| 1963 | 3 |
| 1964 | 1 |
| 1965 | 3 |
| 1966 | 4 |
| 1967 | 2 |
| 1968 | 3 |
| 1969 | 4 |
| 1970 | 13 |
| 1971 | 15 |
| 1972 | 3 |
| 1973 | 3 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 38 |
| 1976 | 22 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 32 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 16 |
| 1982 | 23 |
| 1983 | 19 |
| 1984 | 26 |
| 1985 | 31 |
| 1986 | 17 |
| 1987 | 13 |
| 1988 | 14 |
| 1989 | 24 |
| 1990 | 20 |
| 1991 | 22 |
| 1992 | 18 |
| 1993 | 24 |
| 1994 | 37 |
| 1995 | 15 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 21 |
| 1998 | 32 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 34 |
| 2002 | 26 |
| 2003 | 34 |
| 2004 | 30 |
| 2005 | 21 |
| 2006 | 28 |
| 2007 | 28 |
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2009 | 20 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 24 |
| 2013 | 17 |
| 2014 | 15 |
| 2015 | 13 |
AR datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) — 87 years between 1924–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nuria Schoenberg Nonob. 1932ATdaughter of Arnold Schoenberg and spouse of Luigi Nono
- Núria Espertb. 1935ESSpanish actress and theatre director
- Núria de Gispertb. 1949ESSpanish politician
- Nuria Gonzálezb. 1962ESSpanish actress
- Núria Primsb. 1972ESSpanish actress
- Núria Trifolb. 1977ESvoice actress
- Nuria Llagostera Vivesb. 1980ESSpanish tennis player
- Núria Gagob. 1980ESSpanish actress
- Nuria Párrizas Díazb. 1991ESSpanish tennis player (born 1991)
- Nuria Brancacciob. 2000ITItalian 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 61 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 120K | #36 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 119K | #73 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3.9K | #193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.5K | #6,349 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.5K | #733 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,343 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.5K | #7,277 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 520 | #2,608 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 235 | #3,143 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 200 | #4,801 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 191 | #3,703 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 717 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nuria?
- We estimate roughly 132 thousand people bear Nuria (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nuria have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 119 thousand people bear Nuria in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nuria.
- Where is Nuria most common?
- Nuria is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 421 people carrying it.
- How common is Nuria compared with other names?
- In Spain, Nuria is the 57th most common given name of 161,694 given names recorded there.
- Is Nuria a male or female name?
- Nuria is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Nuria mean?
- Recorded meaning: advocación catalana de la Virgen María; quizá del protovasco, 'lugar del poblado entre cerros'
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Nuria” — the 57th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.