Naïra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/naiʁa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Naïra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: shining, glittering.
- ESSpain1 in 12K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 13K
- LVLatvia1 in 86K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
16,737 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Naira in ES Spain, 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)
shining, glittering
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naïra 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.
16,737 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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).
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Naïra mean, and where does it come from?
- shining, glittering Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Naïra?
- A machine transcription gives /naiʁa/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Naïra a male or female name?
- Naïra 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 Naïra have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Naïra, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Naïra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Naïra is densest in Spain — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Naïra?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 16,737 people named Naïra in 2022, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Naïra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/na%C3%AFraThe 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, “Naïra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.