Syr
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Syr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname.
- SYSyria≈1 in 882(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 67K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 32K
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 Syr 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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 882 (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Syr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #15 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 882 | — | Syr | 18 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Syr | 24 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,236as Sir | 1 in 37K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Syr | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 835as Šír | 1 in 13K | 840 | — | — |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Syr | 11 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Syr | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 32 | 1 in 171K | 32 | — | 2 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Syr 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.
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Syriac.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of sire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, present indicative of sy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Synonym of Syr Darya.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, present tense of sy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In szl, cottage cheese
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)
- Syr Lawb. 1901USactress
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 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #34,118 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Syr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Syr in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled syr.
- How common is the name Syr?
- In Norway, the national register counted 32 people named Syr, about 1 in 171 thousand residents.
- How common is Syr compared with other names?
- In Syria, Syr is the 15th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Syr?
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/syrThe 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, “Syr” — the 15th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.