Nayr
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/nɐjɾ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Nayr is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country. In São Tomé & Príncipe it is the 42nd most common given name.
- UYUruguay1 in 69K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 477K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 570Kfew records
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.
- Angola (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nayr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Nayr | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 444 | 1 in 477K | 444 | Nayr | 33 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 566K | — | Nayr | 13 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 205K | listed | Nayr | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 49 | 1 in 69K | 49 | Nayr | 9 |
| ST São Tomé & Príncipe | #42 | — | — | — | Nayr | 3 |
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); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. 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)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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 444 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 442 | #8,080 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 439 | #14,513 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 421 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 391 | #16,696 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 367 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 287 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1930 | 209 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 80 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1930 | 78 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 54 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 49 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nayr?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /nɐjɾ/; in Spanish /naʝr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Nayr a male or female name?
- Nayr is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- In which country does Nayr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Nayr in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nayr.
- How common is the name Nayr?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 444 people named Nayr in 2022, about 1 in 477 thousand residents.
- How common is Nayr compared with other names?
- In São Tomé & Príncipe, Nayr is the 42nd most common given name of 46 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nayr?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nayrThe 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, “Nayr” — the 42nd most common given name in São Tomé & Príncipe. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.