Zayra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/saʝra/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zayra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 76K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 89K
- USUnited States1 in 175K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
1,904 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
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)
Zayra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,904 | 1 in 175K | 1.9K | Zayra | 148 |
| BR Brazil | — | 755 | 1 in 280K | 755 | Zayra | 46 |
| ES Spain | — | 655 | 1 in 76K | 655 | Zayra | 43 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 2 | Zayra | 40 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Zayra | 19 |
| NI Nicaragua | #821 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Zayra | 8 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Zayra | 9 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Zayra | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | #950 | 103 | 1 in 49K | 103 | Zayra | 8 |
1,904 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Zayra Álvarezb. 1974USPuerto Rican singer and musician
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)
Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,823 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 755 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 751 | #10,056 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 655 | #3,821 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 606 | #1,893 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 543 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 390 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 296 | #10,720 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 236 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 225 | #23,626 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 212 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 154 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Zayra?
- A machine transcription gives /saʝra/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Zayra a male or female name?
- Zayra is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Zayra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Zayra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zayra.
- How common is the name Zayra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,904 people named Zayra in 2020, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
- How common is Zayra compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Zayra is the 821st most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zayra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zayraThe 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, “Zayra” — the 821st most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.