Taira
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɑˈɪɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Taira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 平 (Taira) or 平良 (Taira).
- PEPeru≈1 in 65K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 158K
- FIFinland1 in 94K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 平 (Taira) or 平良 (Taira).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taira 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 158K | 780 | Taira | 71 |
| US United States | 701 | 1 in 475K | 969 | Taira | 77 |
| PE Peru | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Taira | 30 |
| AR Argentina | 135 | 1 in 337K | 135 | Taira | 28 |
| FI Finland | 59 | 1 in 94K | 66 | — | 1 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Taira | 5 |
| PT Portugal | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Taira | 8 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Taira 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 French, third-person singular future of taire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, tayra (Eira barbara)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, vidēji liels sermuļu dzimtas plēsējs (Eira barbara), kas ir vienīgā suga tairu ģintī (Eira), dzīvo Vidusamerikā un Dienvidamerikā, sastopama arī Trinidādas salā, var sasniegt 1,2 m garumu (kopā ar asti), visēdājs, kas lietusmežā pārtiek gan no pelēm un vāverēm gan augļiem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Taira no Masakadob. 895JPsamurai who led one of the largest insurgent forces in the Heian period against the central government in Kyoto
- Taira no Tadamorib. 1096JPTaira clan samurai and governor
- Taira no Kiyomorib. 1118JPJapanese samurai (1118–1181)
- Taira no Shigemorib. 1138JPeldest son of the Taira clan patriarch, Taira no Kiyomori
- Taira no Munemorib. 1147JPOne of the Taira clan's chief commanders in the Genpei War
- Taira no Tokukob. 1155JPempress consort of Japanese emperor Takakura
- Toshiko Tairab. 1921JPJapanese dyer (1921-2022)
- Mikijirō Hirab. 1933JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor (1933-2016)
- Masaaki Tairab. 1967JPJapanese politician
- Airi Tairab. 1984JPJapanese actress (born 1984)
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 57 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 728 | #30,324 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 701 | #32,750 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 680 | #35,603 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 135 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 59 | #19,811 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Taira?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑˈɪɹə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- What does the name Taira mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 平 (Taira) or 平良 (Taira). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Taira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Taira in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taira.
- How common is the name Taira?
- In the United States, the national register counted 701 people named Taira in 2010, about 1 in 475 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tairaThe 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, “Taira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.