Neira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of several places in Lugo province named Neira
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɛira/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.9K
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.1K
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from any of several places in Lugo province named Neira.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #127 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 1 | Neira | 124 |
| PE Peru | #325 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Neira | 84 |
| CO Colombia | #391 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 12 | Neira | 124 |
| EC Ecuador | #319 | 8,804 | 1 in 1.9K | 8.8K | Neira | 53 |
| AR Argentina | #585 | 7,380 | 1 in 6.2K | 7.4K | Neira | 78 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 764 | 1 in 4.4K | 764 | — | 31 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Neira is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Neira (a town, a municipality of Caldas department, Colombia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romansh, feminine singular of neir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Xosé Neira Vilasb. 1928ESSpanish writer (1928-2015)
- María Neirab. 1962ESSpanish medical doctor, international civil servant and diplomat
- Xosé Antonio Neira Cruzb. 1968ESSpanish poeta diria y yo también mi vida
- Quique Neirab. 1973CLChilean musician and singer
- Manuel Neirab. 1977CLChilean footballer
- Gema R. Neirab. 1982ESSpanish screenwriter
- Diana Neirab. 1984COColombian actor
- Roberto Siuchob. 1997PEnot in their usual nameFootballer (born 1997)
- Carolina Cruz-Neirab. 2000USAmerican computer scientist and educator
- Judalina Neiratelevision writer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 8.8K | #484 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 7.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 764 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 80 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 12 | #104 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Neira mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of several places in Lugo province named Neira. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Neira?
- A machine transcription gives /nɛira/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Neira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Neira in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neira.
- How common is the name Neira?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 8,804 people named Neira in 2024, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Neira compared with other names?
- In Chile, Neira is the 127th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neiraThe 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, “Neira” — the 127th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.