Ïra
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ïra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Irina, perhaps through Russian Ира (Ira).
- FIFinland1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
- MDMoldova1 in 3.8K
- LVLatvia1 in 4.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
25,849 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ira in US United States.
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)
Diminutive of Irina, perhaps through Russian Ира (Ira).
Sources 11
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ïra 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.
25,849 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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); e-services.md — living population register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ïra mean, and where does it come from?
- Diminutive of Irina, perhaps through Russian Ира (Ira). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 9 other sources.
- In which country does Ïra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Ïra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ira.
- Where is Ïra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ïra is densest in Finland — about 1 in 3.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ïra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,849 people named Ïra in 2020, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%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, “Ïra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.