Jairo

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jairo is a given name, most frequently recorded in Colombia, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Yahweh illuminerà.

rarermore common
  • COColombia1 in 335◐
  • NINicaragua1 in 640
  • ECEcuador1 in 710

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

≈129K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
332 ●

486K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 710 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled J'Airo in CL Chile.

Meaning & origin●

Yahweh illuminerà

Sources 1

  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Jairo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#57185,60092K rec.—120Jairo187
VE Venezuela#172149,71262K rec.—29KJairo61
BR Brazil#38769,85177K rec.1 in 3K79KJairo168
AR Argentina#69464,12934K rec.—273Jairo68
MX Mexico#58548,35338K rec.—101Jairo162
PE Peru#60446,40035K rec.——Jairo75
EC Ecuador#30523,825△977 rec.1 in 71024KJairo65
NI Nicaragua#3223,49623K rec.——Jairo36
US United States—18,41254K rec.1 in 18K18KJairo332
ES Spain#43011,74121K rec.1 in 4.3K12KJairo147
CR Costa Rica#1074,58511K rec.1 in 1.1K4.6KJairo72
NL Netherlands—624486 rec.1 in 28K624Jairo30

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Languages●

  • Portuguese1.2M54%
  • Spanish705K32%
  • English207K9%
  • Catalan12K1%
  • 7.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese1,175,12254%
Spanish704,50232%
English207,1969%
Catalan11,7411%
7,5091%

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◐

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

  • English given name224K records spelled Jairo11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Venezuela, United States, Ecuador

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Jaïro, Jäîrö, Jaîro, Jâîrô, Jąîrö

  • Catalan given name15K records spelled Jairo6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Peru

    Languages: Catalan, French

    Also written Jaïro, Jaîro, Jâîrô, Jáíró

  • a separate given name9.9K records spelled Jairo3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Jaíro, Jaïro

  • Hindi given name3.4K records spelled Jairo4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, India, Peru

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Jaîro, Jäîrö

  • Russian given name1.7K records spelled Jairo7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Russia, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Хайро, Хаиро

58 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.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1920194019601980200020201K · 1995

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Jairo in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1913–2024
Yearrecords
19131
19181
19251
19261
19281
19291
19331
19341
19352
19361
19381
19393
19403
19412
19426
19431
19444
19452
19464
19475
19484
19491
19505
19516
195212
19534
195411
195520
195612
195724
195821
195914
196019
196125
196247
196357
196452
196562
196661
196777
196862
196963
1970111
1971108
1972114
1973141
1974132
1975178
1976234
1977268
1978304
1979297
1980262
1981321
1982465
1983474
1984479
1985595
1986596
1987568
1988696
1989724
1990701
1991698
1992752
1993733
1994866
19951,021
1996571
1997562
1998695
1999719
2000606
2001564
2002517
2003529
2004450
2005512
2006517
2007559
2008563
2009511
2010454
2011401
2012373
2013309
2014299
2015286
2016153
2017204
2018169
2019180
2020116
2021141
2022106
2023120
2024100

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 97 years between 1913–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960198020002020Yair Lapid, b. 1963Yair Qedar, b. 1969Jairo Asencio, b. 1983Jairo Luis Blumer, b. 1986Yair Netanyahu, b. 1991Yair Rodríguez, b. 1992Jairo Rodrigues, b. 1992Jairo Samperio, b. 1993Jairo Morillas, b. 1993Devyne Rensch, b. 2003
  • Yair Lapidb. 1963ILnot in their usual nameLeader of the Opposition in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Former Prime Minister of Israel in 2022 and Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party
  • Yair Qedarb. 1969ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli filmmaker
  • Jairo Asenciob. 1983DODominican baseball player
  • Jairo Luis Blumerb. 1986BRBrazilian association football player
  • Yair Netanyahub. 1991ILnot in their usual nameson of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Yair Rodríguezb. 1992MXnot in their usual nameMexican mixed martial artist and Taekwondo black belt
  • Jairo Rodriguesb. 1992BRBrazilian association football player
  • Jairo Samperiob. 1993ESSpanish footballer
  • Jairo Morillasb. 1993ESSpanish association football player
  • Devyne Renschb. 2003NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player

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 59 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Jairo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—79K#562
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202270K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—70K#432
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—29K#66
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202424K#102
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202018K#1,683
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12K#491
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—11K#233
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—4.6K#166
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—624#1,422
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020435—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024273#430

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 564 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jairo?
We estimate roughly 129 thousand people bear Jairo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Jairo have the most bearers?
Jairo is most frequently recorded in Colombia, where it is most often spelled jairo.
How common is Jairo compared with other names?
In Colombia, Jairo is the 57th most common given name of 99,385 given names recorded there.
Is Jairo a male or female name?
Jairo is a male 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.
What does the name Jairo mean?
Recorded meaning: Yahweh illuminerà
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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, “Jairo” — the 57th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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