Syra
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of Syros (“Greek island”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Syra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 844K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 185K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of Syros (“Greek island”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Syra is read(measured from records)
Syra is one spelling over 3 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.
- English48%
Alternative form of Syros (“Greek island”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish22%
graphic variant of Sira
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- French8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Syra in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Syra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Syra | 37 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Syra | 13 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Syra | 12 |
| US United States | 394 | 1 in 844K | 391 | Syra | 126 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Syra | 19 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Syra is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dsb, feminine nominative singular of syry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of syre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, genitive singular of syr
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tpn, hoe (agricultural tool)
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)
- Syra Alonso Brufaub. 1899ESSpanish writer (1899-1970)
- Syra Martyb. 1921CHSwiss actress (1921-2011)
- Syra Villalaín de Franconettib. 1926ARArgentine human rights activist
- Syra Madadb. 1986USAmerican pathogen preparedness expert
- Syra Yousufb. 1988PKPakistani model and presenter, actress and VJ
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)
Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Syra?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Syra mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Syros (“Greek island”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Syra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Syra in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled syra.
- Is Syra a male or female name?
- Syra 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.
- How common is the name Syra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 394 people named Syra in 2020, about 1 in 844 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Syra?
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/syraThe 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, “Syra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.