Širota
surname · Latin script
Širota is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sirota, from *sirъ + *-ota.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 7.8Kas Сирота(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 40Kas Сирота
- UYUruguay1 in 125K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Širota 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 named Сирота, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Сирота in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, CN China, Syrota in US United States and Sirota in SK Slovakia.
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)
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sirota, from *sirъ + *-ota.
Sources 3
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Širota 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #773 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Сирота | 41 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Сирота | 129 |
| US United States | — | 1,245 | 1 in 267K | 1.2K | Syrota | 44 |
| PL Poland | — | 424as Syrota | 1 in 90K | 215 | — | 1 |
| CN China | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Сирота | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Sirota | 30 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 27 | 1 in 125K | 27 | — | — |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Minoru Shirotab. 1899JPnot in their usual nameinventor
- Gintarō Shirotab. 1914JPnot in their usual nameJapanese lyricist
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(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 Širota mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sirota, from *sirъ + *-ota. Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Širota have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Сирота in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Širota most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Širota is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 125 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Širota?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,245 people named Širota in 2010, about 1 in 267 thousand residents.
- How common is Širota compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Širota is the 773rd most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1irotaThe 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, “Širota” — the 773rd most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.