Naïr
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Naïr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Malayalam നായർ (nāyaṟ).
- YTMayotte≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 14K
- USUnited States1 in 44K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
93,517 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mayotte, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nair in IN India, US United States.
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)Borrowed from Malayalam നായർ (nāyaṟ).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Naïr is found
(measured from records)Naïr 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 93,517 | 1 in 14K | 94K | Nair | 38 |
| US United States | 7,513 | 1 in 44K | 11K | Nair | 48 |
| SE Sweden | 180 | 1 in 57K | 180 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 135 | 1 in 62K | 135 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | 115 | 1 in 333K | 62 | — | — |
| YT Mayotte | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 5 | — | 4 |
93,517 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte). 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)Naïr is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In roa-gal, black
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Naïr mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Malayalam നായർ (nāyaṟ). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Naïr?
- In India, the national register counted about 94 thousand people named Naïr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nair. After it come United States, Sweden, Switzerland and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Naïr?
- In India, the national register counted 93,517 people named Naïr, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/na%C3%AFrThe 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, “Naïr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.