Subira
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Swahili: patience (capacity to be patient)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/suɓiɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Subira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 999(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 49K
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.5M
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 999 (inferred from the name graph)
≈59,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, 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)
third-person singular future of subir
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Subira is read(measured from records)
Subira 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.
- Swahili63%
patience (capacity to be patient)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Subira in English.
- French8.9%
third-person singular future of subir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Subira in Hindi.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Subira 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 999 | 1 | Subira | 6 |
| KE Kenya | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 49K | listed | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 7.6M | 6 | Subira | 31 |
| FR France | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 12 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 16M | listed | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | 6 | — | 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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Subira is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, patience
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Being patiently
as a nameThe African book of names
In Galician, first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of subir
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)
- Philip Arnold Subira Anyolob. 1956KEKenyan Roman Catholic archbishop
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 19 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 10 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Subira come from?
- third-person singular future of subir Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Subira?
- A machine transcription gives /suɓiɾa/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Subira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 59 thousand people named Subira in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled subira.
- Is Subira a male or female name?
- Subira 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.
- What does the name Subira mean?
- In Swahili, patience (capacity to be patient)
- How common is the name Subira?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3 people named Subira, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Subira?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/subiraThe 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, “Subira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.