Nira
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of National Industrial Recovery Act (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/nira/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated · uncertain
Nira is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Nira is also written נירה in Hebrew, นิระ in Thai and Нира in Cyrillic.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 30K
- UYUruguay1 in 31K
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 Nira itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Nira in other scripts: Hebrew, Thai and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled נירה in BR Brazil, IL Israel and Neera in 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.
How to pronounce Nira
- Indonesian:/nira/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/niɾa/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Initialism of National Industrial Recovery Act.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Nira is read
(measured from records)Nira 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.
- Hindi54%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nira in Hindi.
- English12%
Initialism of National Industrial Recovery Act.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian6.1%
neera, a type of sap, liquor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nira in Spanish.
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)Nira 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 | — | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1.6K | Nira | 99 |
| BR Brazil | — | 30,788as Nara | 1 in 6.9K | 31K | נירה | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Nira | 78 |
| IL Israel | #525 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 44 | נירה | 55 |
| US United States | — | 1,592as Nara | 1 in 209K | 4.3K | Neera | 170 |
| HR Croatia | — | 724as Nera | 1 in 5.8K | 878 | Nira | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 111 | 1 in 31K | 111 | — | 1 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Nira 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 kaw, form in which the pronoun _sira_ appears, when qualifying a noun (his, her; your) or the _in_-form of the passive verb (by him, by her; by you)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of にら
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ivv, for them
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In cba-cat, water
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)- Nira Rabinovitchb. 1943ILIsraeli actress
- Nira Wickramasingheb. 1964LKSri Lankan historian
- Nira Peregb. 1969ILIsraeli artist (born 1969)
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).
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)56 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nira?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /nira/; in Spanish /niɾa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Nira mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of National Industrial Recovery Act. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Nira a male or female name?
- Nira is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), Spain (INE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Uruguay (INE Uruguay).
- Which countries have the most people named Nira?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Nira in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nira. After it come Brazil, Indonesia, Israel and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nira?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 111 people named Nira, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Nira compared with other names?
- In Israel, Nira is the 525th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niraThe 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, “Nira” — ranked 3860th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.