Tayra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/taiɾa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Tayra is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 12K(measured from records)
- PAPanama≈1 in 23Kfew records
- CRCosta Rica1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tayra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 179K | 3 | Tayra | 10 |
| EC Ecuador | 1,455 | 1 in 12K | 1.5K | Tayra | 13 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Tayra | 2 |
| CL Chile | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 2 | Tayra | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 287 | 1 in 738K | 287 | Tayra | 36 |
| PA Panama | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Tayra | 8 |
| CR Costa Rica | 94 | 1 in 54K | 94 | Tayra | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | 38 | 1 in 55K | 40 | — | — |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Tayra 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 ami, to go to; to leave for
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zag, circumcision
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.
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)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1.5K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.5K | #743 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 287 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 279 | #19,679 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 202 | #13,968 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 201 | #25,171 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 94 | #2,240 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 40 | #2,471 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 38 | #1,258 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 37 | #1,264 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 37 | #1,249 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 36 | #1,245 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Tayra mean, and where does it come from?
- A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tayra?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /taiɾa/; in Portuguese /tɐjɾɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Tayra a male or female name?
- Tayra is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Ecuador (INEC, 2024), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Tayra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Tayra in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tayra.
- Where is Tayra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tayra is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tayra?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 1,455 people named Tayra in 2024, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tayraThe 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, “Tayra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.