Syrah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative letter-case form of syrah
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪɹa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Syrah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 494K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 12Kas Sira
- FIFinland1 in 43Kas Sira
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Syrah 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 494K (inferred from the name graph)
4,129 named Sira
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative letter-case form of syrah.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Syrah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 4,129as Sira | 1 in 12K | 4.1K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 667as Sira | 1 in 499K | 622 | — | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 177as Sira | 1 in 1.2M | 254 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 130as Sira | 1 in 43K | 145 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 87as Sira | 1 in 67K | 87 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 80as Sira | 1 in 64K | 80 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 35 | 1 in 494K | 113 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 2as Sira | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
4,129 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)
Syrah is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Shiraz (variety of black grape)
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.
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 179 | #40,852 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 35 | #10,485 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 27 | #16,609 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 8 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Syrah?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪɹa/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Syrah mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative letter-case form of syrah. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Syrah a male or female name?
- Syrah 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.
- In which country does Syrah have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Sira, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Syrah most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Syrah is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 494 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Syrah?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 35 people named Syrah, about 1 in 494 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Syrah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/syrahThe 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, “Syrah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.