Tirāns

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Patvaļīgs, nežēlīgs, varmācīgs valdnieks; arī despots (1)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Tirāns is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.

  • LVLatvia≈1 in 46Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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.

Latvia (inferred from the name graph)

≈41 people, est.

Record sources
5 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
recorded in Latvian

Patvaļīgs, nežēlīgs, varmācīgs valdnieks; arī despots (1)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Tirāns 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.

Where Tirāns is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia≈41 est.≈1 in 46K—Tirāns5
EE Estonia——listed——

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.

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)

Tirāns 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 Latvian, Valdnieks tirānijā (1)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Valdnieks tirānijā (2)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tirāns under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tirāns mean?
Recorded meaning: Patvaļīgs, nežēlīgs, varmācīgs valdnieks; arī despots (1)
In which country does Tirāns have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 41 people named Tirāns in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tirāns.
How common is the name Tirāns?
Mondonomo estimates about 41 people in Latvia have Tirāns as their first surname, about 1 in 46 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Tirāns”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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