Sirr
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002
/siɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sirr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Warwicks;. unexplained. Perhaps a reduced form of Beausire .
- IEIreland≈1 in 111K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 423K
- CACanada≈1 in 1.3M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 111K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Warwicks;. unexplained. Perhaps a reduced form of Beausire .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sirr 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | 213 | Sirr | 79 |
| AU Australia | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 423K | — | Sirr | 34 |
| IN India | 49 | 1 in 27M | 49 | — | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Sirr | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 70 | Sirr | 40 |
| CA Canada | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Sirr | 23 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Sirr | 4 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)Sirr 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 Azerbaijani, secret
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, Bibl
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)- Henry Charles Sirrb. 1764IEIrish soldier and police officer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 70 | #41,368 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 49 | #44,910 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #108,864 |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Sirr mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Warwicks;. unexplained. Perhaps a reduced form of Beausire . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Sirr?
- A machine transcription gives /siɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sirr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people named Sirr in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sirr.
- How common is the name Sirr?
- In India, the national register counted 49 people named Sirr, about 1 in 27 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sirrThe 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, “Sirr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.