Tiras
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: second-person singular past historic of tirer
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/tʲɪɹəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tiras is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- MLMali≈1 in 151K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 195K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 381K
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)
- Record sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 151K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mali, est.
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)Unknown; possibly related to the ethnonym 'Tursha' (Sea Peoples) or 'Tyrsenoi' (Etruscans).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
How Tiras is read
(measured from records)Tiras 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.
- English44%
Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tiras in German.
- French13%
second-person singular past historic of tirer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish7.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tiras in Turkish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Tiras 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 402K | — | Tiras | 54 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 381K | — | Tiras | 3 |
| ML Mali | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Tiras | 1 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 185 | Tiras | 100 |
| CH Switzerland | 43 | 1 in 195K | 43 | Tiras | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 437K | — | Tiras | 7 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Tiras 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.
Unknown; possibly related to the ethnonym 'Tursha' (Sea Peoples) or 'Tyrsenoi' (Etruscans).
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Represents one of the Japhetic nations in the divine ordering of the world following the Flood.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of tirō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, circulation (number of copies sold of e.g. a newspaper)
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)- Emrah TirasTRTurkish researcher
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 43 | #20,892 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Tiras come from?
- Unknown; possibly related to the ethnonym 'Tursha' (Sea Peoples) or 'Tyrsenoi' (Etruscans). Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Tiras?
- A machine transcription gives /tʲɪɹəz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tiras mean?
- In French, second-person singular past historic of tirer
- In which country does Tiras have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 199 people named Tiras in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tiras.
- How common is the name Tiras?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 43 people named Tiras in 2024, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tiras?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tirasThe 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, “Tiras”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.