Naira
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naira is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The official currency of Nigeria, which replaced the pound in 1973; the principal denomination of the currency, equal to 100 kobo.
- GEGeorgia1 in 592◐
- ESSpain1 in 12K
- BRBrazil1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈30K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 114 ●
- 1 in 592 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
37K records
Official registry-verified
Georgia
Spellings & scripts●
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●
The official currency of Nigeria, which replaced the pound in 1973; the principal denomination of the currency, equal to 100 kobo.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 16,737△ | 4.7K rec. | 1 in 13K | 18K | Naira | 114 |
| AR Argentina | — | 12,151 | 6K rec. | — | 14 | Naira | 44 |
| GE Georgia | #132 | 6,750 | 7.6K rec. | 1 in 592 | 6.8K | Naira | 26 |
| PE Peru | — | 5,639 | 9.6K rec. | — | — | Naira | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,215△ | 1.9K rec. | 1 in 12K | 4.2K | Naira | 77 |
| US United States | — | 1,377 | 2.2K rec. | 1 in 242K | 1.4K | Naira | 111 |
| CO Colombia | — | 970 | 286 rec. | — | — | Naira | 36 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 854 | 802 rec. | — | — | Naira | 17 |
| AM Armenia | #140 | 697 | 712 rec. | — | — | Naira | 57 |
| MX Mexico | — | 675 | 461 rec. | — | — | Naira | 41 |
| PH Philippines | — | 525 | 327 rec. | — | — | Naira | 14 |
| FR France | — | 450 | 0 rec. | 1 in 151K | 450 | — | 1 |
Roughly 17K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 13K). 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●
- Portuguese266K74%
- Spanish36K10%
- English21K6%
- Georgian15K4%
- Catalan4.2K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 265,908 | 74% |
| Spanish | 35,544 | 10% |
| English | 20,989 | 6% |
| Georgian | 14,836 | 4% |
| Catalan | 4,215 | 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●
Naira 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 Arabic, shining, glittering
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In German, weibl. Vom. südamerikanischer Her kunft, der auf Quechua »große Augen« bedeutet.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Hausa, naira (currency of Nigeria)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, naira (Nigeria's currency)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Naudas vienība Nigērijas Federatīvajā Republikā, sīknauda - kobo
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1981 | 7 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 8 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1996 | 7 |
| 1997 | 9 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2003 | 7 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 17 |
| 2007 | 18 |
| 2008 | 24 |
| 2009 | 13 |
| 2010 | 19 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 22 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 22 |
| 2015 | 55 |
| 2016 | 57 |
| 2017 | 51 |
| 2018 | 45 |
| 2019 | 75 |
| 2020 | 54 |
| 2021 | 67 |
| 2022 | 44 |
| 2023 | 65 |
| 2024 | 73 |
| 2025 | 77 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 34 years between 1981–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Naira Gelashvilib. 1947GEGeorgian linguist
- Naira Agababeanb. 1951MDMoldovan chess player
- Naira Shakhtakhtinskayab. 1954AZAzerbaijani politician
- Naira Zohrabyanb. 1965AMArmenian politician
- Naira Aharonyanb. 1969AMArmenian painter
- Naira Sahakyanb. 1988AMArmenian historian
- Naira Alib. 1988UGUgandan musician and performer
- Naira Beatriz Vierb. 1996BRBrazilian badminton 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 72 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 18K | #1,488 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 17K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 17K | #1,193 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.2K | #1,008 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.8K | #558 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,870 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 337 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 200 | #1,026 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 200 | #1,026 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 122 | #1,193 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 89 | #9,234 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 77 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 447 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Naira?
- We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Naira (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Naira have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Naira in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled naira.
- Where is Naira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Naira is densest in Georgia — about 1 in 592 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Naira compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Naira is the 132nd most common given name of 34,237 given names recorded there.
- Is Naira a male or female name?
- Naira 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 Naira mean?
- Recorded meaning: The official currency of Nigeria, which replaced the pound in 1973; the principal denomination of the currency, equal to 100 kobo.
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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, “Naira” — the 132nd most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.