Airas
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/aiɾas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Airas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Perhaps originally a given name (compare the patronym-like surname Airaksinen), possibly from the Old Norse name *Airikiʀ, from Proto-Norse *Aiwa-rikiaʀ and akin to Airikka.
- FIFinland1 in 7.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 232K
- ESSpain1 in 270K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
762 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
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)Perhaps originally a given name (compare the patronym-like surname Airaksinen), possibly from the Old Norse name *Airikiʀ, from Proto-Norse *Aiwa-rikiaʀ and akin to Airikka.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Airas 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.
762 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Airas is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, second-person singular present indicative of airar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, second-person singular past historic of airer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Kalmes, skalbes
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)- Johan Airasb. 1250ESPortuguese poet
- Erkki Airasb. 1908FIFinnish priest
- Matti Airasb. 1933FIFinnish basketball and ice hockey player
- Mirja Airasb. 1945FIFinnish painter (born 1945)
- Marjatta Airasb. 1950FIFinnish singer
- Aaro AirasFIFinnish journalist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 762 | #2,400 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 417 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 185 | #17,562 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 185 | #17,512 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 44 | #14,094 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 26 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #52,577 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Airas mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps originally a given name (compare the patronym-like surname Airaksinen), possibly from the Old Norse name *Airikiʀ, from Proto-Norse *Aiwa-rikiaʀ and akin to Airikka. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Airas?
- A machine transcription gives /aiɾas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Airas have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 762 people named Airas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled airas.
- Where is Airas most common?
- Airas is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Airas?
- In Finland, the national register counted 762 people named Airas, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Airas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/airasThe 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, “Airas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.