Tayra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/taɪɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tayra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 12K
- PAPanama≈1 in 30K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
1,455 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tayra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | 1,455 | 1 in 12K | 1.5K | Tayra | 13 |
| BR Brazil | 287 | 1 in 738K | 287 | Tayra | 36 |
| US United States | 254 | 1 in 1.3M | 252 | Tayra | 99 |
| CL Chile | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 93K | 2 | Tayra | 18 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 968K | — | Tayra | 2 |
| PA Panama | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Tayra | 8 |
| CR Costa Rica | 94 | 1 in 54K | 94 | Tayra | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | 38 | 1 in 55K | 40 | — | — |
1,455 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Tayra is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ami, to go to; to leave for
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zag, circumcision
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 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1.5K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.5K | #743 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 287 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 279 | #19,679 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 252 | #32,873 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 202 | #13,968 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 201 | #25,171 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 94 | #2,240 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 40 | #2,471 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 38 | #1,258 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 37 | #1,264 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 37 | #1,249 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Tayra mean, and where does it come from?
- A South American omnivore, Eira barbara, allied to the grison, with a long thick tail. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tayra?
- A machine transcription gives /taɪɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Tayra a male or female name?
- Tayra 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 Tayra have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Tayra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tayra.
- Where is Tayra most common?
- Tayra is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tayra?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 1,455 people named Tayra in 2024, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tayra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tayraThe 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, “Tayra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.