Cahir
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘warrior’. Once popular in Leinster; Cathair was a variant in several families
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəhɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cahir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M(measured from records)
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)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.6M (inferred from the name graph)
127 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘warrior’. Once popular in Leinster; Cathair was a variant in several families. Still used in Ireland.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cahir 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 | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 138 | Cahir | 7 |
| FR France | — | — | 1 | Cahir | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 25 | Cahir | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | — | 1 | — | — |
127 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Cahir is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Irish: Anglicized spelling of CATHAOIR .
as a word
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of cair.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Thomas Cahirb. 1952USpolitician in Massachusetts, US
- Gerard Cahirb. 1959Australian rules footballer
- Caitriona CahirIEresearcher
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 138 | #129,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 128 | #124,109 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 127 | #133,048 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Cahir come from?
- ‘warrior’. Once popular in Leinster; Cathair was a variant in several families. Still used in Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How do you pronounce Cahir?
- A machine transcription gives /kəhɪɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Cahir mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘warrior’. Once popular in Leinster; Cathair was a variant in several families.
- In which country does Cahir have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 127 people named Cahir, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cahir.
- Where is Cahir most common?
- Cahir is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.6 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cahir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 127 people named Cahir in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cahirThe 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, “Cahir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.