Кира
given name · Cyrillic script
Meaning: Greek or Persian origin; 'lady', 'mistress' or 'sun'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʲirə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Кира is a given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 2.9K
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 3.6K
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 Кира itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kira in US United States, PL Poland and Кіра in UA Ukraine.
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)
Greek or Persian origin; 'lady', 'mistress' or 'sun'
Sources 1
- Энциклопедия имен
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Кира 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 | #145 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | #69 | Кира | 168 |
| US United States | — | 35,464as Kira | 1 in 9.4K | 35K | Kira | 139 |
| PL Poland | — | 7,389as Kira | 1 in 5.2K | 7.4K | Kira | 55 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #512 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 8.2K | Кира | 40 |
| UA Ukraine | #198 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | listed | Кіра | 45 |
| BY Belarus | #171 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 2 | Кира | 23 |
| LV Latvia | — | 1,210as Kira | 1 in 1.6K | 1.2K | Кира | 15 |
| MD Moldova | — | 1,207as Kira | 1 in 2.8K | 1.2K | — | 5 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 193 | 1 in 11K | 151 | — | 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: the ru-zags-hf register; the ua-minjust-popular-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); e-services.md — living population register; State Statistical Office — living population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Кира 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 Russian, Possibly from Greek kyrios/kyra: 'lady, mistress'.
as a nameЭнциклопедия имен
In Russian, Female form of Кир; from Greek ‘lady, mistress’.
as a nameЭнциклопедия имен
In Russian, a female given name, Kira
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, diminutive/pet form
as a name俄语姓名译名手册
In Russian, From Greek Kyra, ‘lady, mistress’.
as a nameЭнциклопедия имен
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)
- Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russiab. 1909FRyounger daughter of Grand Duke Kirill of Russia and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1909-1967); wife of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
- Kira Muratovab. 1934UASoviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, film actress (1934–2018)
- Princess Kira of Prussiab. 1943DEPrussian Royal (1943–2004)
- Kira Mirób. 1980ESSpanish actress
- Taya Valkyrieb. 1983CAnot in their usual nameCanadian professional wrestler
- Kira Yarmyshb. 1989RUAlexei Navalny's spokesperson and writer
- Kira Walkenhorstb. 1990DEGerman beach volleyball player
- Kira Noirb. 1994USAmerican pornographic actress
- Kira Weidle-Winkelmannb. 1996DEGerman female alpine skier
- Kira Kosarinb. 1997USAmerican actress and singer
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations | — | 8.2K | #167 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | Bureau of National Statistics — names tool (monthly birth registrations 2010–2026) | — | 7.2K | #105 |
| MK North Macedonia | State Statistical Office — living population names | — | 151 | #806 |
| MK North Macedonia | State Statistical Office — living population names | — | 42 | #1,734 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations | — | 1 | #83,321 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | Bureau of National Statistics — names tool (monthly birth registrations 2010–2026) | — | 1 | #43,653 |
| UA Ukraine | Ministry of Justice Ukraine — Most Popular Newborn Names | 2021 | — | — |
| RU Russia | EGR ZAGS Russian Names — HuggingFace dataset (rustemgareev, CC BY-SA 4.0) | — | — | #69 |
| RU Russia | Russian Names Encyclopedia (Khigir, 2003) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Кира mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek or Persian origin; 'lady', 'mistress' or 'sun' Recorded by Энциклопедия имен.
- How do you pronounce Кира?
- A machine transcription gives /kʲirə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Кира a male or female name?
- Кира 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 Кира have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Кира in Russia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled кира.
- How common is the name Кира?
- In North Macedonia, the national register counted 193 people named Кира, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Кира compared with other names?
- In Russia, Кира is the 145th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Кира?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0The 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, “Кира” — the 145th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.