Viira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: screen (woven material)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Viira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 4.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 48K
- SESweden1 in 785K
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.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
screen (woven material)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Viira 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.
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: the ee-stat-nimed register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Helga Viirab. 1920EEEstonian translator (1920-2002)
- Viive Viirab. 1933EEEstonian equestrian and geologist (born 1933)
- Arkadi Viirab. 1969EEEstonian amateur wrestler (1969-1992)
- Teele Viirab. 1988EEEstonian singer (born 1988)
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 269 | #152 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 239 | #212 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 116 | #11,443 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 76 | #77,671 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #33,230 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Viira mean, and where does it come from?
- screen (woven material) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Viira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 264 people named Viira in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled viira.
- How common is the name Viira?
- In Finland, the national register counted 116 people named Viira, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Viira compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Viira is the 182nd most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/viiraThe 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, “Viira” — the 182nd most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.