Lirá
surname · Latin script
Lirá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 87th most common surname. Recorded meaning: of uncertain derivation; probably a habitational name from one of the places in Galicia called Lira, in A Coruna and Pontevedra provinces. Lirá is also written Лира in Cyrillic and ლირა in Georgian.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 700(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 1.4K
- MXMexico≈1 in 1.7K
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 Lirá itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 270 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 700 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Lirá in other scripts: Cyrillic and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lira in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, VE Venezuela 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)of uncertain derivation; probably a habitational name from one of the places in Galicia called Lira, in A Coruna and Pontevedra provinces.
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lirá is found
(measured from records)Lirá 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 | #131 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 2.2K | Lira | 185 |
| MX Mexico | #232 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 1.1K | Lira | 187 |
| US United States | — | 14,758 | 1 in 23K | 15K | Lira | 270 |
| VE Venezuela | #364 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Lira | 55 |
| NI Nicaragua | #87 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 700 | — | Lira | 27 |
| CL Chile | #339 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 2 | Lira | 111 |
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 — Nomes (census name API); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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 Lirá mean, and where does it come from?
- of uncertain derivation; probably a habitational name from one of the places in Galicia called Lira, in A Coruna and Pontevedra provinces. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lirá?
- Mondonomo estimates about 150 thousand people named Lirá in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lira. After it come Mexico, United States, Venezuela and Nicaragua; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lirá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,758 people named Lirá in 2010, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Lirá compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Lirá is the 131st most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lir%C3%A1The 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, “Lirá” — ranked 5221st in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.