Alcira
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Del santo Bernardo de Alcira; también de la ciudad española
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: RENAPER, 2024
/alˈsi.ɾa/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Alcira is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 3K
- VEVenezuela1 in 6.3K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Del santo Bernardo de Alcira; también de la ciudad española. Del árabe algecira 'la isla'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alcira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #503 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 3 | Alcira | 62 |
| AR Argentina | #396 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 2 | Alcira | 65 |
| PE Peru | #899 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Alcira | 41 |
| VE Venezuela | #590 | 4,533 | 1 in 6.3K | 4.5K | Alcira | 29 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Alcira | 25 |
| UY Uruguay | #277 | 531 | 1 in 6.4K | 531 | Alcira | 17 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alcira de la Peñab. 1910ARArgentinian physician and activist (1910–1998)
- Alcira Legaspib. 1914UYUruguayan author (1914-2010)
- Alcira Soust Scaffob. 1924UYUruguayan poet
- Alcira Cardona Torricob. 1926BOBolivian writer (1926–2003)
- Alcira Alonsob. 1927ARArgentine-Salvadorian choreographer
- Alcira Argumedob. 1940ARArgentine politician and academic
- Kika Llorensb. 1943PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan basketball player (1943-)
- Mirtha Guianzeb. 1945UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan lawyer
- Alcira Gilb. 1958COColombian actor
- Fiorella Pachecob. 1985PEnot in their usual namePeruvian association football player
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 4.5K | #393 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 531 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 528 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1944 | 102 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1944 | 101 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1945 | 90 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1945 | 90 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1953 | 82 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1953 | 82 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1943 | 80 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1943 | 80 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1946 | 77 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Alcira?
- In Spanish /alˈsi.ɾa/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Alcira a male or female name?
- Alcira is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Venezuela (asosab), Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Uruguay (INE Uruguay), among others.
- What does the name Alcira mean?
- Recorded meaning: Del santo Bernardo de Alcira; también de la ciudad española.
- In which country does Alcira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Alcira in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alcira.
- How common is the name Alcira?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 4,533 people named Alcira, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Alcira compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Alcira is the 503rd most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alcira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alciraThe 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, “Alcira” — the 503rd most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.