Saira
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/saiɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Russian са́йра (sájra, “saury”).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 3.4K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 7.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈84,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Saïra in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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)
From Russian са́йра (sájra, “saury”).
Sources 2
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Saira | 88 |
| US United States | — | 5,588 | 1 in 60K | 5.6K | Saira | 272 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #698 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Saïra | 3 |
| HN Honduras | #362 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Saira | 22 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Saira | 35 |
| SV El Salvador | #781 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Saira | 20 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Saira | 44 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Saira is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In izh, Khabolovo (a village in the Kingiseppsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, saury, or more specifically Pacific saury; Cololabis saira
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, nit (egg of a louse)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dlm, evening
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Rūpnieciski nozīmīga vējzivju kārtas skumbrijlīdaku dzimtas zivs (gk. izplatīta Klusā okeāna mērenās un subtropu joslas rajonos)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
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)
- Saira Balqeesb. 1960PKbadminton player
- Saira Afzal Tararb. 1966PKPakistani politician
- Saira Mohanb. 1978CAModel, actor, writer
- Saira Basitb. 1981NONorwegian defence researcher
- Saira Lopezb. 1989MXMexican association football player
- Saira Blairb. 1996USAmerican politician
- Saira ButtUSresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-3273-8379)
- Saira SadloeNLDutch politician
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)
Attested in 70 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.6K | #3,653 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 79 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #3,653 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname 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 Saira mean, and where does it come from?
- From Russian са́йра (sájra, “saury”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Saira?
- In the etymology graph, Sajra is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Saira?
- A machine transcription gives /saiɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Saira a male or female name?
- Saira 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 Saira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 84 thousand people named Saira in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saira.
- How common is the name Saira?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,588 people named Saira in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Saira compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Saira is the 362nd most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sairaThe 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, “Saira” — the 362nd most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.