Gira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: tour (a journey through a list of places)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/xiɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 41K
- PLPoland1 in 580K
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)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
1,118 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
tour (a journey through a list of places)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gira 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.
1,118 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Gira is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Galbūt kartais, ypač kada ir gyvojoje kalboje yra trumpasis balsis i, sietina su liet. gira „gėrovas, gėrėjas; toks rūgštus gėralas“ (LKŽ III 328). Tačiau, kaip rodo žmonių vartojamos lytys, Gird dažnai, matyt, sietina su Gyra (žr.)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Kumari (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Russian, var of Giria.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Portuguese, the gathering or grouping of various spirits, who manifest through mediums in Umbanda
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, keen (on something), craving (after something)
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)
- Catherine R. Girab. 1932USAmerican educator (1932-2019)
- Carlo Girab. 1950LULuxembourgian handball player
- Michael Girab. 1954USAmerican singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and artist
- Camille Girab. 1958LULuxembourgian politician (1958-2018)
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 29 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 237 | #85,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 220 | #85,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 209 | #83,618 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 42 | #118,404 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 35 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 35 | #62,873 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 31 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 31 | #68,411 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #84,384 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #98,926 |
Reference works 5
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Gira mean, and where does it come from?
- tour (a journey through a list of places) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gira?
- A machine transcription gives /xiɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gira have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Gira, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gira most common?
- Gira is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 41 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gira?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,118 people named Gira, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giraThe 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, “Gira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.