Deyanira
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greek Deianeira: from verbal roots meaning 'destroy, devastate' + 'man'; 'destroyer of men'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɛjanira/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Deyanira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 89th most common given name.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 3.6K
- COColombia≈1 in 5.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Greek Deianeira: from verbal roots meaning 'destroy, devastate' + 'man'; 'destroyer of men'. Variant Dejanira.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world(measured from records)
Deyanira 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 | #611 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 4 | Deyanira | 69 |
| VE Venezuela | #464 | 5,223 | 1 in 5.5K | 5.2K | Deyanira | 35 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #89 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Deyanira | 27 |
| US United States | — | 3,788 | 1 in 88K | 3.8K | Deyanira | 225 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 505K | — | Deyanira | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | #202 | 1,416 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.4K | Deyanira | 23 |
| NI Nicaragua | #280 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Deyanira | 14 |
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; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Cynthia Rodríguezb. 1984MXnot in their usual nameMexican singer, actress and TV host
- Deyanira Angulob. 1991MXbadminton 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)
Attested in 32 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 5.2K | #355 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.8K | #4,780 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.4K | #450 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 201 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 95 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 89 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 74 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 64 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 61 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 58 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 55 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 53 | — |
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
- Where does the name Deyanira come from?
- Greek Deianeira: from verbal roots meaning 'destroy, devastate' + 'man'; 'destroyer of men'. Variant Dejanira. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Deyanira?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛjanira/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Deyanira mean?
- Recorded meaning: Greek Deianeira: from verbal roots meaning 'destroy, devastate' + 'man'; 'destroyer of men'.
- Is Deyanira a male or female name?
- Deyanira is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Deyanira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named Deyanira in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deyanira.
- How common is the name Deyanira?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 5,223 people named Deyanira, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Deyanira compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Deyanira is the 611th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deyaniraThe 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, “Deyanira” — the 611th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.