Leira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: furrow
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 9.9K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 11K
- ESSpain1 in 40K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,246 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
furrow
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leira 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 1,246 | 1 in 40K | 1.2K | Leira | 10 |
| NO Norway | 552 | 1 in 9.9K | 552 | — | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 321 | 1 in 11K | 321 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 227 | 1 in 200K | 227 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | — |
1,246 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Leira 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.
In kr, or Id/dra, 8. next world (from ^5^*t?), sheol. grave
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of leire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, field; a strip of cultivable land
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of leire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, Loire (a river in France)
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)
- José María García Leirab. 1934ESSpanish politician
- Lois Pérez Leirab. 1953ESSpanish writer
- Rogelio Leirab. 1958ESresearcher
- Halvard Leirab. 1976NONorwegian political scientist
- Rocío Leirab. 1980ESSpanish writer
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 44 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Leira mean, and where does it come from?
- furrow Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Leira have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Leira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leira.
- Where is Leira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leira is densest in Norway — about 1 in 9.9 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leira?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,246 people named Leira, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Leira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leiraThe 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, “Leira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.