Jairo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Yahweh illuminerà
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xaiɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jairo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common given name.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 325(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 330
- ECEcuador1 in 710
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 367 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 325 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Yahweh illuminerà
Sources 1
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jairo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #60 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 330 | 120 | Jairo | 201 |
| BR Brazil | #347 | 69,851 | 1 in 3K | 79K | Jairo | 168 |
| VE Venezuela | #178 | 28,710 | 1 in 998 | 29K | Jairo | 61 |
| EC Ecuador | #205 | 23,825 | 1 in 710 | 24K | Jairo | 71 |
| NI Nicaragua | #36 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 325 | — | Jairo | 38 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 4,585 | 1 in 1.1K | 4.6K | — | 75 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yair Lapidb. 1963ILnot in their usual nameLeader of the Opposition in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Former Prime Minister of Israel in 2022 and Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party
- Yair Qedarb. 1969ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli filmmaker
- Jairo Asenciob. 1983DODominican baseball player
- Jairo Luis Blumerb. 1986BRBrazilian association football player
- Yair Netanyahub. 1991ILnot in their usual nameson of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
- Yair Rodríguezb. 1992MXnot in their usual nameMexican mixed martial artist and Taekwondo black belt
- Jairo Rodriguesb. 1992BRBrazilian association football player
- Jairo Samperiob. 1993ESSpanish footballer
- Jairo Morillasb. 1993ESSpanish association football player
- Devyne Renschb. 2003NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 79K | #562 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 70K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 70K | #432 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 29K | #66 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 24K | #102 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4.6K | #166 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 435 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 222 | #432 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 120 | #30 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 100 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jairo mean, and where does it come from?
- Yahweh illuminerà Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,….
- How do you pronounce Jairo?
- A machine transcription gives /xaiɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Jairo a male or female name?
- Jairo is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Jairo?
- In the etymology graph, Jair and Jairus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jairo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 149 thousand people named Jairo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jairo.
- How common is the name Jairo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 69,851 people named Jairo in 2022, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Jairo compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Jairo is the 60th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jairo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jairoThe 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, “Jairo” — the 60th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.