Iára
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Iára is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Tupi yîara (“mistress of water”), from y (“water”) + ara (“lord/lady”).
- UYUruguay1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.4K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
88,394 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Iara in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, UY Uruguay and 3 more.
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)- Old Tupiyîara“mistress of water”(measured from records)
- Old Tupi rooty“water”(measured from records)
From Old Tupi yîara (“mistress of water”), from y (“water”) + ara (“lord/lady”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Iára 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #456 | 88,394 | 1 in 2.4K | 95K | Iara | 158 |
| AR Argentina | #479 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 228 | Iara | 91 |
| PT Portugal | #403 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | listed | Iara | 62 |
| UY Uruguay | #263 | 1,548 | 1 in 2.2K | 1.5K | Iara | 28 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,019 | 1 in 49K | 1K | Iara | 46 |
| PY Paraguay | #863 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Iara | 14 |
88,394 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Iára mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Tupi yîara (“mistress of water”), from y (“water”) + ara (“lord/lady”). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Iára a male or female name?
- Iára 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.
- In which country does Iára have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 88 thousand people named Iára, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iara.
- Where is Iára most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Iára is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.2 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Iára?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 88,394 people named Iára in 2022, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Iára compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Iára is the 456th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/i%C3%A1raThe 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, “Iára” — the 456th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.