Hira

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hira is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Siva (K).

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 7.2K◐
  • PKPakistan1 in 55K
  • USUnited States1 in 226K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.5K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
154 ●

322K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 34K ◐

Denmark

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Siva (K)

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#832453,000314K rec.—7.4KHira121
PK Pakistan#8683,431932 rec.—listedHira63
US United States—1,4742.7K rec.1 in 226K1.5KHira154
BD Bangladesh#7331,1371.5K rec.—listedHira53
ID Indonesia—533170 rec.——Hira63
TR Türkiye—526635 rec.—2.5KHira12
GB United Kingdom—507270 rec.—4Hira55
FR France—375—1 in 181K375——
MY Malaysia—27082 rec.——Hira12
SE Sweden—187△4 rec.1 in 55K187—4
DK Denmark—175—1 in 34K175——
CA Canada—159225 rec.—1Hira30

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi405K49%
  • 215K26%
  • Turkish94K11%
  • English18K2%
  • Indonesian17K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi404,91049%
214,51826%
Turkish93,66611%
English17,6032%
Indonesian17,1492%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hira is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name228K records spelled Hira6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Also written Hīrā, Hīra, Hîra, Hirã, Hirā

  • Turkish given name95K records spelled Hira5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, Cyprus, Syria

    Also written Hirâ, Hîra, Hîŕa, Hĭṙã

  • English given name69K records spelled Hira16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Austria, Pakistan

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Hirae, Hïrä, Hįřã, Hïřà, Ĥířặ

  • Spanish given name4.4K records spelled Hira21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, Mexico, Spain, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Eira, Eirá, Eíra, Hirã, Ěirä

  • French given name4.1K records spelled Hira10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, India, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Eira, Hïrå, Éira, Éirà, Hìrã

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hira 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.

  • quintessence; a diamond; thunderbolt; lion

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • Lawn, courtyard

    as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names

  • Diamante

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Russian, var of Giria.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In alu, wild taro; there are several varieties, of which some are edible. It is used also in magical curing of the sick

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

Over time●

020040060019201940196019802000561 · 1992

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Hira in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1901–2017
Yearrecords
19012
19162
19184
19195
19208
19215
19224
192311
19248
19254
192611
192713
192811
192914
193016
193132
193222
193329
193428
193541
193649
193759
193838
193943
194056
194191
194267
194377
194488
194590
1946141
1947140
1948112
1949104
1950119
1951160
1952172
1953134
1954156
1955148
1956233
1957184
1958178
1959250
1960191
1961248
1962236
1963214
1964238
1965253
1966280
1967268
1968242
1969251
1970263
1971244
1972274
1973253
1974240
1975245
1976265
1977301
1978249
1979275
1980168
1981312
1982340
1983373
1984329
1985399
1986298
1987420
1988364
1989375
1990379
1991470
1992561
1993561
1994426
1995312
1996176
1997169
199887
199913
20001
20011
20021
20061
20072
200861
20092
201077
201112
201218
201315
2014110
201548
20174

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 98 years between 1901–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Hira Lall Sibal, b. 1914Hira L. Koul, b. 1943Hira Tekindor, b. 1989Hira Mani, b. 1989

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 74 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Hira
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20182.5K#30
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.5K#8,822
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1.4K#555
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.1K#5,232
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020606#39,225
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024539#237
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010513#42,308
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000384#51,024
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024375#2,035
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—326#3,359
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—256#4,767
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—240#31,666

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname 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 2026-09-12 data build · 554 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hira?
We estimate roughly 2.5 thousand people bear Hira (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Hira have the most bearers?
Hira is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled hira.
How common is Hira compared with other names?
In India, Hira is the 832nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Hira a male or female name?
Hira is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Hira mean?
Recorded meaning: Siva (K)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Hira” — the 832nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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