Hira
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Siva (K)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 205K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Siva (K)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #807 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Hira | 77 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 2.5K | Hira | 12 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | listed | Hira | 41 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Hira | 69 |
| US United States | — | 1,620 | 1 in 205K | 1.5K | Hira | 161 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 175 | 1 in 34K | 175 | — | — |
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: TÜİK NIP — newborn names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Hira 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.
quintessence; a diamond; thunderbolt; lion
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Lawn, courtyard
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
Diamante
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Russian, var of Giria.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In alu, wild taro; there are several varieties, of which some are edible. It is used also in magical curing of the sick
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Hira Lall Sibalb. 1914INIndian lawyer
- Hira L. Koulb. 1943USAmerican statistician
- Hira Tekindorb. 1989TRTurkish artist (born 1989)
- Hira Manib. 1989PKPakistani actress
- Hira SolankiINIndian politician
- Hira Bijuli Nepalicasting director
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2018 | 2.5K | #30 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #8,822 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1.4K | #555 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 175 | #1,087 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 146 | #8,822 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 74 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 24 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Hira mean, and where does it come from?
- Siva (K) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- In which country does Hira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 111 thousand people named Hira in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hira.
- Is Hira a male or female name?
- Hira is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How common is the name Hira?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,620 people named Hira in 2020, about 1 in 205 thousand residents.
- How common is Hira compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Hira is the 807th most common given name of 77,659 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/hiraThe 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, “Hira” — the 807th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.