Sira
loc · Latin script
Meaning: de Syra, syrienne. Fête : 24 août (6 septembre)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sira is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 12K
- FIFinland1 in 43K
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
de Syra, syrienne. Fête : 24 août (6 septembre). Syra est son équivalent français. Fête : 8 juin.
Sources 1
- Russian Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sira 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 16 | — | 19 |
| ES Spain | 4,129 | 1 in 12K | 4.1K | — | 102 |
| FR France | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 1.4K | Sira | 155 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Sira | 59 |
| US United States | 667 | 1 in 499K | 622 | — | 83 |
| FI Finland | 130 | 1 in 43K | 145 | — | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | 80 | 1 in 64K | 80 | — | 5 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)
Sira is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "Syrian."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In xgn-pro, yellow
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In ace, salt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ibl, viand, i.e. non-staple food that is eaten along with rice, other cereal, camote, taro at a meal; includes primary meat or fish and vegetables; functionally, food that induces appetite for the filling staple food
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pmf, 3rd person singular and plural pronoun, used for genealogically elder families, by slaves of their masters, by children-in-law of their parents-in-law, etc.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Sirah Baldéb. 1928GNnot in their usual nameGuinean novelist and teacher
- Sira Diopb. 1929MLMali teacher, politician, trade unionist, and feminist (1929–2013)
- Chae Shi-rab. 1968KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (1968-)
- Sira Regob. 1973ESSpanish politician affiliated with United Left (IU), MdEP
- Sira Syllab. 1980FRFrench politician
- Sira Topicb. 1991CHFrench-Swiss actress
- Kang Si-rab. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Sira-Anna Faalb. 2000DEGambian actress
- Sira Serenella MacchiettiITItalian pedagogue
- Sira JunnoFIFinnish actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 77 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 293 | #71,696 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 270 | #72,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 255 | #71,372 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 178 | #18,074 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 178 | #18,011 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 45 | #25,160 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 23 | — |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #70 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Sira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Sira in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold.
- What does the name Sira mean?
- Recorded meaning: de Syra, syrienne. Fête : 24 août (6 septembre).
- How common is the name Sira?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,129 people named Sira, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/siraThe 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, “Sira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.