Veira
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/beiɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Veira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 21K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 172K
- USUnited States1 in 967K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 966 (inferred from the name graph)
9,992 people
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Veira 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 | 9,992 | 1 in 21K | 10K | Veira | 65 |
| ES Spain | 606 | 1 in 83K | 606 | Veira | 64 |
| CO Colombia | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Veira | 45 |
| US United States | 344 | 1 in 967K | 419 | Veira | 140 |
| AR Argentina | 264 | 1 in 172K | 264 | Veira | 34 |
| UY Uruguay | 261 | 1 in 13K | 261 | Veira | 15 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 105 | 1 in 966 | 105 | — | 4 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 36 | 1 in 1.5K | 36 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 21 | 1 in 36K | 21 | Veira | 1 |
9,992 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Veira is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, virus (DNA/RNA causing disease)
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)
- Sebastiao Veirab. 1574PTPortuguese missionary
- Arturo Taracidob. 1887ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Ian Veirab. 1929JMbadminton player
- Héctor Veirab. 1946ARArgentine footballer and manager
- Pedro Manuel Arias Veirab. 1949ESSpanish politician
- Danielle Veirab. 1970SRSurinamese director of National Security
- Hugo Vieirab. 1988PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player
- Alcides Short VeiraBRBrazilian rower
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 27 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Veira?
- A machine transcription gives /beiɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Veira have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 10.0 thousand people named Veira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled veira.
- Where is Veira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Veira is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 966 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Veira?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 9,992 people named Veira, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Veira?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/veiraThe 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, “Veira”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.