Syre
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Obsolete form of sire
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Syre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 33K
- DEGermany≈1 in 355K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
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)
Obsolete form of sire.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Syre is read(measured from records)
Syre 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.
- English53%
Obsolete form of sire.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Syre in French.
- German11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Syre in German.
- Norwegian Nynorsk5.1%
an acid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
acid
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Bokmålkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Syre 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.
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Syre 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 Danish, acid (generally understood to be a Brønsted-Lowry acid)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of syrus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, locative singular of syr
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)
- Wolfram Syréb. 1950DEGerman organist and musicologist
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 166 | #9,484 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 145 | #112,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 136 | #126,018 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 119 | #142,788 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 22 | — |
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
- What does the name Syre mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of sire. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Syre?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Syre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 226 people named Syre in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled syre.
- Where is Syre most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Syre is densest in Norway — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Syre?
- In Norway, the national register counted 166 people named Syre, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Syre?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/syreThe 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, “Syre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.