Saïra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Saïra is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Russian са́йра (sájra, “saury”).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 3K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 6.7Kfew records
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Saira in US United States, MX Mexico, IN India and 4 more.
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)From Russian са́йра (sájra, “saury”).
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Saïra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Saira | 88 |
| IN India | — | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 31 | Saira | 70 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #698 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Saïra | 3 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 29 | Saira | 105 |
| US United States | — | 5,588 | 1 in 60K | 5.6K | Saira | 272 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Saira | 14 |
| HN Honduras | #362 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Saira | 22 |
| SV El Salvador | #781 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Saira | 20 |
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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
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 Saïra mean, and where does it come from?
- From Russian са́йра (sájra, “saury”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Saïra a male or female name?
- Saïra 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 Saïra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 162 thousand people named Saïra in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saira.
- How common is the name Saïra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,588 people named Saïra in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Saïra compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Saïra is the 362nd most common given name of 23,588 given names 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/sa%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, “Saïra” — the 362nd most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.