Entry № 10972 · Spanish origin

Urraca Urraca — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oo-RAH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Magpie (first regnant queen of León)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "magpie (first regnant queen of león)".

Urraca is the Spanish word for "magpie." Urraca of León and Castile (1080-1126) was the first woman to rule a Christian Iberian kingdom in her own right — Queen of León, Castile, and Galicia.

Among the most powerful medieval Spanish queens.

Magpie (first regnant queen of León) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Urraca
Transliteration
Urraca
Pronunciation
/ uːˈrɑː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Urraca stands.

Urraca does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Urracas before her.

Real people
Urraca of León
Queen regnant.
1080 – 1126
In fiction
Urraca
Common in Spanish historical fiction.

Names connected to Urraca.

The number behind Urraca.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Urraca reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.