Chaira

surname · Latin script

Meaning: knife used by shoemakers

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/tʃaiɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Chaira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 56K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 715K
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.5M

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

806 people

Sources
68 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

knife used by shoemakers

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chaira 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.

Where Chaira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina8061 in 56K806—1
US United States1831 in 1.8M183Chaira68
ES Spain701 in 715K70Chaira2
BE Belgium81 in 1.5M8Chaira2
IN India71 in 189M7Chaira7
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4—1

806 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chaira is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Morocco, Belgium, United States

    Also written Chaïra

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Chaîra

  • Arabic surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Morocco, Algeria, United States

    Also written Chaîra, Chaïra, Çhäïŕà, Châira, Chãîrá

  • Thai surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written ไชยระ, ชัยรุณ, ไซร่า, ไซรา, ใจรา

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Chaira 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.

  • In Shona, alternative form of -tyaira

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, plain

    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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Chaira
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—806—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010183#98,982
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020181#105,198
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000137#117,538
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—70#35,355
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—70#35,173
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20088#81,271
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—7#153,948
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#37,740
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Chaira mean, and where does it come from?
knife used by shoemakers Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Chaira?
A machine transcription gives /tʃaiɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Chaira have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 806 people named Chaira, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Chaira most common?
Chaira is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 56 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Chaira?
In Argentina, the national register counted 806 people named Chaira, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.

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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, “Chaira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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