Naira
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Armenia it is the 39th most common given name. In English, recorded as The official currency of Nigeria, which replaced the pound in 1973; the principal denomination of the currency, equal to 100 kobo.
- ESSpain1 in 12K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 13K
- AMArmenia≈1 in 198as Նաիրա
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 Naira 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
16,737 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Նաիրա in AM Armenia.
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)
The official currency of Nigeria, which replaced the pound in 1973; the principal denomination of the currency, equal to 100 kobo.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Naira is read(measured from records)
Naira is one spelling over 5 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.
- Portuguese28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Naira in Portuguese.
- Spanish26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Naira in Spanish.
- Georgian11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Naira in Georgian.
- Arabic8.7%
shining, glittering
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- English7.7%
The official currency of Nigeria, which replaced the pound in 1973; the principal denomination of the currency, equal to 100 kobo.
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)
Naira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 16,737 | 1 in 13K | 18K | Naira | 111 |
| AM Armenia | #39 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 198 | — | Նաիրա | 59 |
| MZ Mozambique | #211 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Naira | 6 |
| GE Georgia | #130 | 6,750as ნაირა | 1 in 592 | 6.8K | Naira | 25 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,215 | 1 in 12K | 4.2K | Naira | 85 |
16,737 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Naira is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom. südamerikanischer Her kunft, der auf Quechua »große Augen« bedeutet.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Hausa, naira (currency of Nigeria)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, naira (Nigeria's currency)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Naudas vienība Nigērijas Federatīvajā Republikā, sīknauda - kobo
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)
- Naira Gelashvilib. 1947GEGeorgian linguist
- Naira Agababeanb. 1951MDMoldovan chess player
- Naira Shakhtakhtinskayab. 1954AZAzerbaijani politician
- Naira Zohrabyanb. 1965AMArmenian politician
- Naira Aharonyanb. 1969AMArmenian painter
- Naira Sahakyanb. 1988AMArmenian historian
- Naira Alib. 1988UGUgandan musician and performer
- Naira Beatriz Vierb. 1996BRBrazilian badminton 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 74 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 29 | #64,812 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #64,358 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Naira mean, and where does it come from?
- The official currency of Nigeria, which replaced the pound in 1973; the principal denomination of the currency, equal to 100 kobo. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Naira a male or female name?
- Naira is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Naira have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Naira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naira.
- How common is the name Naira?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 16,737 people named Naira in 2022, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Naira compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Naira is the 39th most common given name of 7,577 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nairaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Naira” — the 39th most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.