Vaira

surname · Latin script

Meaning: weibl. Vom. lettischer Herkunft (zu lett

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/βaiɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Vaira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 69K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 63K
  • CUCuba≈1 in 266K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,000 people, est.

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in German

weibl. Vom. lettischer Herkunft (zu lett. vairot »zunehmen, sich vermehren«).

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vaira 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.

Where Vaira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈1,000 est.≈1 in 63KlistedVaira17
AR Argentina6601 in 69K660Vaira40
US United States2551 in 1.3M274Vaira19
BR Brazil≈80 est.≈1 in 2.6M25Vaira14
FR France≈52 est.≈1 in 1.3M8——
CU Cuba≈42 est.≈1 in 266K—Vaira1
CH Switzerland161 in 525K16—1

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vaira is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Vaìra

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Italy

    Also written Vaïra

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Vaira is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, still water

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Guarani, Cadogan sugiere que el origen es probablemente Guairá ( [1960] 2005 : 81).

    as a wordAguilera Jiménez (2021) — Guaraní surnames update to Cadogan's "Mil apellidos guaraníes"

  • In Lithuanian, Plg. Vairis, Vairys (žr.). Galbūt sietina su liet. vairūs „gražus, geras; smarkus, sunkus; įvairus“ (DLKŽ).

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

  • In Latvian, Gadījumu vairumā; pa lielākai daļai; biežāk (salīdzinājumā ar ko citu)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, tā, ka (pašreizējos apstākļos) tiek pārtraukta kāda darbība; vairs

    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)

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)

FormalEstimado/a Vaira,Dear Vaira, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Vaira,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Vaira
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—660—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020274#75,813
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010255#75,564
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000254#71,610
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202416#43,070
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19519—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19918—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19818—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19218—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19617—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)18917—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19416—

Reference works 3

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 Vaira?
A machine transcription gives /βaiɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Vaira mean?
Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. lettischer Herkunft (zu lett.
In which country does Vaira have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 998 people named Vaira in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vaira.
How common is the name Vaira?
In Argentina, the national register counted 660 people named Vaira, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.

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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, “Vaira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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