Nuria
Meaning
from Our Lady of Núria, the Marian shrine high in the Catalan Pyrenees; a Spain classic, especially beloved in Catalonia
The story
Nuria is the Spanish form of Catalan Núria. The name comes from devotion to Our Lady of Núria, whose sanctuary stands in a high Pyrenean valley in Catalonia. The place and Marian title made Núria an enduring Catalan given name, while Spanish commonly writes Nuria without the accent. Its deeper place-name etymology has competing proposals, so the shrine connection is firmer than any single lexical translation. September 8 is the traditional name day. On this site the American curve shows only a first faint signal in the 2020s, far too little to describe the name’s long life in Catalonia or its use elsewhere in Spain. The accent is meaningful: Núria is the Catalan form, Nuria the Spanish form. Both point back to the same mountain sanctuary and regional tradition.
How popular is Nuria around the world?
In the United States, 114 babies were named Nuria between 2020 and 2025. In Spain, 118,882 residents are named Nuria, the 36th most common name among women, with a mean age of 43.3 years.
Nuria is on the official records of the United States, Spain, Argentina, Mexico City, England and Wales, Canada and Brazil.
United States
1 in 190,000
In the United States, 114 babies were named Nuria between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Nuria has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Spain
1 in 380
In Spain, 118,882 residents are named Nuria, the 36th most common name among women, with a mean age of 43.3 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Argentina
1 in 25,000
In Argentina, 27 newborns were given the name Nuria in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Mexico City City
1 in 29,000
In Mexico City, there were 4 registrations of Nuria in 2022.
share of that year’s registrations in the city
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
England and Wales
1 in 39,000
In England and Wales, 15 girls named Nuria were born in 2025, ranked 1,892nd among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Canada
1 in 61,000
In Canada, 6 girls named Nuria were born in 2024, ranked 3,027th among girls that year.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
Brazil
1 in 140,000
At the 2022 census, 1,475 people in Brazil were named Nuria, ranked 6,343rd, with a median age of 34.
Among people named Nuria living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
The census also counted 40 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Chile
last on record 2018
Nuria is not on the 2021 record for Chile, where nametree keeps the spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Montevideo City
last on record 2006
Nuria is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
South Australia
last on record 2012
Nuria is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Puerto Rico, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown.
When you meet Nuria
Most people given the name Nuria in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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