Loira
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/loiɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Loira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as feminine singular of loiro.
- ESSpain1 in 84K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 130K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 300K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Loira itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)
593 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Loire in BR Brazil, PT Portugal.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Loira is read
(measured from records)Loira is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish68%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Loira in Spanish.
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Loira in English.
- Portuguese12%
feminine singular of loiro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Catalan12%
Loire (the longest river in France, passing (from southeast to northwest) through the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Cher, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Loira 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 | 593 | 1 in 84K | 593 | Loira | 69 |
| BR Brazil | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 853K | 111 | Loire | 25 |
| IT Italy | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 687K | — | Loira | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 76 | 1 in 598K | 76 | Loira | 28 |
| US United States | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 7.6M | listed | Loira | 49 |
| PT Portugal | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Loire | 1 |
| FI Finland | 30as Loire | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 26 | 1 in 130K | 26 | Loira | 5 |
593 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 593 | #6,977 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 593 | #6,974 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 86 | #70,869 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 76 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 26 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Loira?
- A machine transcription gives /loiɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Loira mean?
- In Portuguese, feminine singular of loiro
- In which country does Loira have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 593 people named Loira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loira.
- Where is Loira most common?
- Loira is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 84 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Loira?
- In Spain, the national register counted 593 people named Loira, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loiraThe 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, “Loira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.