Zaira
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Invented by Irish writer C.R
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 38 countries · latest register: RENAPER, 2024
/ˈsaiɾa/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Zaira is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 4.2K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 5.4K
- ESSpain1 in 5.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zaira itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 named Заира, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Заира in RU Russia and Сайра in KG Kyrgyzstan.
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)Invented by Irish writer C.R. Maturin for his novel Women; or, pour et contre (1818).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Zaira, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zaira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #321 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | register #219 | Заира | 133 |
| MX Mexico | #700 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 93 | Zaira | 153 |
| ES Spain | #664 | 9,061 | 1 in 5.5K | 9.1K | Zaira | 125 |
| AR Argentina | #688 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 204 | Zaira | 58 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Zaira | 29 |
| GE Georgia | #133 | 5,182as ზაირა | 1 in 771 | 5.2K | Zaira | 18 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #911 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Сайра | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 799 | 1 in 4.2K | 799 | — | 15 |
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 — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Zaira is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Fiore che sboccia
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latvian, Zairas Republika - Kongo Demokrātiskās Republikas nosaukums 1971.-1997. g.
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Kongo upes nosaukums Zairas Republikā
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)- Chela Corderob. 1892ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian actor
- Zaira Ilyinichna Gvinianidzeb. 1931GEbotanist
- Zaira Arsenishvilib. 1933GESoviet writer and screenwriter (1933-2015)
- Zaira Kadagidzeb. 1943RUresearcher
- Zaira Rodríguez Pérezb. 1974ESSpanish politician
- Zaira Berrazougab. 1976ITItalian actress
- Zaira Narab. 1988ARArgentine model and TV host
- Zaira Basb. 1994ESSpanish beauty queen
- Zaira Wasimb. 2000INformer Indian actress
- Zaira Romerob. 2000ESSpanish actress
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)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)66 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.1K | #585 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.6K | #303 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 799 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 774 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 204 | #503 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 93 | #764 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 71 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 71 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Zaira come from?
- Invented by Irish writer C.R. Maturin for his novel Women; or, pour et contre (1818). Recorded by Irish first names.
- How do you pronounce Zaira?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈsaiɾa/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /zɐiɾɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What are other forms of the name Zaira?
- In the etymology graph, Zara is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Zaira a male or female name?
- Zaira is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Spain (INE), Brazil (IBGE, 2022), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Venezuela (asosab), among others.
- What does the name Zaira mean?
- Recorded meaning: Invented by Irish writer C.R.
- In which country does Zaira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Заира in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zaira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zaira is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.2 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zaira?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,061 people named Zaira, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Zaira compared with other names?
- In Russia, Zaira is the 321st most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zaira?
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/zairaThe 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, “Zaira” — the 321st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.