Kaira
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kaira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Hindu (Arora) and Sikh name, based on the name of a clan in the Arora community, of unexplained etymology.
- USUnited States1 in 143K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 180K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 262K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
2,321 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hindu (Arora) and Sikh name, based on the name of a clan in the Arora community, of unexplained etymology.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,321 | 1 in 143K | 2.3K | Kaira | 202 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,179 | 1 in 180K | 1.2K | Kaira | 43 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Kaira | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Kaira | 30 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Kaira | 9 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Kaira | 12 |
| ZM Zambia | #856 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Kaira | 12 |
| LV Latvia | — | 15 | 1 in 125K | 15 | — | 1 |
2,321 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kaira is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, auger (carpenter's tool for boring holes)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Cairo (the capital city of Egypt)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, auger (carpenter's tool)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, + KAGELIS Kn 2, V (of. Kagiel) (3). Iš vienos pusės, plg. liet. Kagis Kagelis Kairaitis KAIRAITIS Btg, Erž, Gl 3, Grl 6, Igl, Jrb 6, Jz, Kbr, Kdl 3, Kim, Klp 9 (of. Kaireit), Klvr 2, Kps 2, Kr, KzR 2, Ldvn, Lkč 2, Mžk, Pgg 4, Raud, Rdš, Rs, Skdv, Snt 3, Ss 2, Šil 2, Šk 2, Šmk, VIkv, Vrb, Vv 2, Zp, Žal 2 (69) — žr. Kairjs.
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Latvian, Ēģiptes galvaspilsēta (angļu val. Cairo; arābu: القاهرة, al Qāhirah), atrodas Nīlas krastos un salās uz dienvidiem no deltas, Āfrikas lielākā pilsēta, 9,54 mlj iedzīvotāju (2017. g.)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kaira Gongb. 1981SGSingaporean singer
- Kaira Shirahaseb. 1997JPJapanese tarento
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,789 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #7,399 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 880 | #9,990 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 152 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 134 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 34 | #7,399 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 15 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 15 | #3,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #6,789 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Kaira mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu (Arora) and Sikh name, based on the name of a clan in the Arora community, of unexplained etymology. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kaira have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Kaira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaira.
- Is Kaira a male or female name?
- Kaira is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How common is the name Kaira?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,321 people named Kaira in 2020, about 1 in 143 thousand residents.
- How common is Kaira compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Kaira is the 856th most common given name of 8,845 given names recorded there.
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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, “Kaira” — the 856th most common given name in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.