Shaira
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/ʃaiɾa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Shaira is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: poetess, endowed with deep insight or intuition; feminine of Shair.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 9.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 16K
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 24Kfew records
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 Shaira 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈98,000 named Shayra, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Шаира in KG Kyrgyzstan, UZ Uzbekistan and Shayra in IN India.
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)poetess, endowed with deep insight or intuition; feminine of Shair
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shaira 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 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 28 | Shayra | 31 |
| PH Philippines | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | listed | Shaira | 71 |
| CO Colombia | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Shaira | 31 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Шаира | 11 |
| EC Ecuador | 1,083 | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | — | 8 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Шаира | 11 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); the ph-wiktionary-names register; INEC — civil registry names. 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)Shaira is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, poetess, endowed with deep insight or intuition; fem. of Sha‘ir ,«Ls. j,ls Jyas ga Lay "It is not the word of a poet." (surat al-Haaqqah 69:41)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, poetess, endowed with deep insight or intuition; feminine of Shair
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)- Shaira Lunab. 1986PHFilipino photographer
- Shaira Thobanib. 1987ITresearcher
- Shaira Diazb. 1995PHFilipina actress
- Shaira Riverab. 1999Filipino tennis player (born 1999)
- Shaira Peláezb. 2003COColombian singer
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)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.1K | #877 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1.1K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2017 | 173 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2018 | 154 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 41 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2013 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1998 | 1 | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shaira a male or female name?
- Shaira is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Ecuador (INEC, 2024), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Spain (INE).
- What does the name Shaira mean, and where does it come from?
- poetess, endowed with deep insight or intuition; feminine of Shair Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Shaira?
- In Spanish /ʃaiɾa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Shaira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Shayra in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shaira?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 1,083 people named Shaira in 2024, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shairaThe 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, “Shaira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.