Leire
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leire is a given name, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the name of the monastery San Salvador de Leyre.
- ESSpain1 in 1.7K◐
- ARArgentina1 in 209K
- BRBrazil1 in 733K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈30K ●
- Sources
- 139 ●
- 1 in 1.7K ◐
across 5 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin●
From the name of the monastery San Salvador de Leyre.
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #229 | 29,832△ | 9.2K rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 30K | Leire | 139 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,265 | 1.5K rec. | — | 25 | Leire | 24 |
| FR France | — | 888 | 1K rec. | — | 17 | Leire | 81 |
| MX Mexico | — | 381 | 124 rec. | — | 3 | Leire | 32 |
| US United States | — | 355 | 463 rec. | — | 11 | Leire | 61 |
| BR Brazil | — | 289 | 196 rec. | 1 in 733K | 322 | Leire | 44 |
| PE Peru | — | 121 | 24 rec. | — | — | Leire | 13 |
| DE Germany | — | 118 | 110 rec. | — | listed | Leire | 33 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 115 | 108 rec. | — | — | Leire | 13 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 110 | 90 rec. | — | — | Leire | 5 |
| CO Colombia | — | 108 | 28 rec. | — | — | Leire | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 85 | 122 rec. | — | — | Leire | 22 |
Roughly 30K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 1.7K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish94K51%
- Portuguese55K30%
- Catalan30K16%
- English1.5K1%
- French1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 93,597 | 51% |
| Portuguese | 55,238 | 30% |
| Catalan | 29,832 | 16% |
| English | 1,497 | 1% |
| French | 1,020 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Leire is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, clay (type of earth that is used to make bricks, pottery etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gsw, to learn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1970 | 1 |
| 1973 | 1 |
| 1977 | 1 |
| 1979 | 1 |
| 1987 | 1 |
| 1989 | 1 |
| 1993 | 1 |
| 1995 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 2 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 23 |
| 2010 | 28 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 21 |
| 2013 | 24 |
| 2014 | 25 |
| 2015 | 22 |
| 2016 | 18 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2018 | 44 |
| 2019 | 25 |
| 2020 | 20 |
| 2021 | 15 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 8 |
| 2024 | 8 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 30 years between 1970–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Leire Pajínb. 1976ESSpanish politician
- Leire Olaberriab. 1977ESOlympic cyclist
- Leire Otaegib. 1977ESSpanish female curler
- Leire Iglesiasb. 1978ESOlympic judoka
- Leire Iglesias Santiagob. 1978ESSpanish politician
- Leire Martínezb. 1979ESSpanish recording artist and singer
- Leire Landab. 1986ESSpanish footballer
- Leire Aramendia Yerrob. 1993EShandball player
- Leire Bañosb. 1996ESassociation football player
- Leire Etxeberria LizarraldeESSpanish politician
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 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30K | #257 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28K | #153 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 483 | #17,606 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 356 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 322 | #18,885 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 306 | #10,465 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 289 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2018 | 274 | #593 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 269 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 265 | #19,571 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 204 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2019 | 140 | #806 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 201 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Leire?
- We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Leire (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Leire have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 30 thousand people bear Leire in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled leire.
- Where is Leire most common?
- Leire is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Leire compared with other names?
- In Spain, Leire is the 229th most common given name of 161,694 given names recorded there.
- Is Leire a male or female name?
- Leire 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.
- What does the name Leire mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the name of the monastery San Salvador de Leyre.
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About this data
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, “Leire” — the 229th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.