KAYRa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Former royal family of eastern Sudan: royal name of Sudanese origin
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes
- Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 34 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/kajrˈa/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
KAYRa is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 2.9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 5K
- NLNetherlands1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Former royal family of eastern Sudan: royal name of Sudanese origin
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)KAYRa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #971 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | KAYRa | 59 |
| BR Brazil | — | 983 | 1 in 215K | 983 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 766 | 1 in 434K | 721 | KAYRa | 157 |
| IN India | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 3 | KAYRa | 28 |
| CY Cyprus | #821 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | KAYRa | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 342 | 1 in 51K | 342 | KAYRa | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 77 | 1 in 133K | 77 | KAYRa | 1 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 141K | 5 | — | 6 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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)KAYRa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Büyük bir kimseden gelen iyilik, ihsan.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Aymara, Rana
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
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)- Kayra Şenocakb. 1968TRTurkish actor (born 1968)
- Kayra Özdemirb. 1988FRTurkish-French judoka (born 1988)
- Kayra Zabcıb. 2001TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 2001)
- Kayra Kamerb. 2002TRTurkish chess player (born 2002)
- Kayra Nelemansb. 2002NLDutch 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)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)61 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 34 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Is KAYRa a male or female name?
- KAYRa is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes; Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name KAYRa mean, and where does it come from?
- Former royal family of eastern Sudan: royal name of Sudanese origin Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce KAYRa?
- In Turkish /kajrˈa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does KAYRa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named KAYRa in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled KAYRa.
- How common is the name KAYRa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 983 people named KAYRa in 2022, about 1 in 215 thousand residents.
- How common is KAYRa compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, KAYRa is the 971st most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kayraThe 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, “KAYRa” — the 971st most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.