Šira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: must (fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually grapes)
Šira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 24K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 113K
- FIFinland1 in 2.4Kas Siira
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šira 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
2,323 named Siira
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shira in US United States.
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(measured from records)
must (fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually grapes)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Šira 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 2,323as Siira | 1 in 2.4K | 2.3K | — | 1 |
| IN India | 997as Shira | 1 in 1.3M | 997 | — | 4 |
| US United States | 555as Shira | 1 in 599K | 5K | Shira | 9 |
| PL Poland | 338 | 1 in 113K | 360 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 228 | 1 in 24K | 228 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 120as Siira | 1 in 85K | 120 | — | — |
| MK North Macedonia | 31as Шира | 1 in 69K | 31 | — | — |
2,323 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Šira is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, »1° slatko neprovrelo vino, must, mušt, mošt, mast, mastika, vinkot, 2° (metafora) don rđave kvalitete«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Latvian, 12–15 cm plata polsterēta krūšu siksna aizjūga velkošajiem dzīvniekiem, ko gatavo no ļoti izturīgas, divkārt šūtas ādas; lence.
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, injicējamās narkotikas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šira mean, and where does it come from?
- must (fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually grapes) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Šira have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Siira, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Šira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šira is densest in Norway — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though Finland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šira?
- In Poland, the national register counted 338 people named Šira in 2026, about 1 in 113 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Šira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1iraThe 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, “Šira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.