Giera
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 174; slaw. Patronym zu einem Rufnamen mit ahd./altsächs
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɪɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 19K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 751K
- BEBelgium1 in 977K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
1,966 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
174; slaw. Patronym zu einem Rufnamen mit ahd./altsächs. gēr „Speer“; möglich ist auch Einfluss von poln. gira/giera „Fuß, Bein“.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giera 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,966 | 1 in 19K | 992 | Giera | 60 |
| US United States | 224 | 1 in 1.5M | 227 | Giera | 27 |
| FR France | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 18 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Giera | 6 |
| ES Spain | 36 | 1 in 1.4M | 36 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 23 | 1 in 751K | 23 | Giera | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 12 | 1 in 977K | 12 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
1,966 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ottorino Gierab. 1841ITItalian politician
- David S Gierab. 1983researcher
- Agnieszka Wojtkowiak-GieraPLPolish parasitologist
- Madeleine GieraDEGerman 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 992 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 992 | #3,129 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 974 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 974 | #3,110 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 227 | #87,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 224 | #83,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 224 | #79,115 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 36 | #56,041 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 36 | #55,528 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 23 | #46,839 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 14 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Giera?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɪɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Giera mean?
- Recorded meaning: 174; slaw. Patronym zu einem Rufnamen mit ahd./altsächs.
- In which country does Giera have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Giera, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giera.
- Where is Giera most common?
- Giera is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Giera?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,966 people named Giera in 2026, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gieraThe 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, “Giera”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.