Gyr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Abbreviation of gigayear
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Gyr is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Switzerland.
- Switzerland (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 4 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Abbreviation of gigayear.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gyr counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | — | 715 | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 102 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 9 | — | — |
| FR France | — | 8 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 4 | — | — |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Gyr 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.
ISO 639-3 language code for Guarayu.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xsv, nature reserve, primeval forest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Gyr (breed of cattle)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, drive, thrust
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Miljards gadu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Adelrich Gyrb. 1843CHSwiss politician (1843-1928)
- Karl Heinrich Gyrb. 1879CHSwiss entrepreneur (1879-1946)
- Radu Gyrb. 1905RORomanian writer (1905–1975)
- Wysel Gyrb. 1927CHSwiss television presenter (1927-1999)
- Josy Gyr-Steinerb. 1949CHSwiss politician (1949-2007)
- Agnès Ukundamaliyab. 1956RWnot in their usual nameRwandan publisher and founder of Éditions Bakame
- Mario Gyrb. 1985CHSwiss rower
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 715 | #1,755 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 102 | #148,244 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 10 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #44,266 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #62,009 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Gyr mean, and where does it come from?
- Abbreviation of gigayear. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gyr have the most bearers?
- Gyr is most frequently recorded in Switzerland.
What do you want to know about Gyr?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gyrThe 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, “Gyr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.