Pyra

surname · Polish · Latin script

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

Pyra is a surname, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: potato.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 37K◐
  • BEBelgium1 in 92K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M

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

≈1.3K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
51 ●

305 records

Reference-verified

1 in 37K ◐

Poland

Meaning & origin●

potato

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Pyra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1,035△256 rec.1 in 37K1KPyra51
BE Belgium127—1 in 92K127——
US United States115△26 rec.1 in 2.9M115Pyra13
GB United Kingdom1712 rec.——Pyra9
FR France7—1 in 9.7M7——
CH Switzerland60 rec.1 in 1.4M6—3
ES Spain6—1 in 8.3M6——
CR Costa Rica2—1 in 2.5M2——

Roughly 1K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 37K). 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●

  • Polish6.9K78%
  • English89510%
  • German2723%
  • French2132%
  • Dutch1422%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Polish6,93078%
English89510%
German2723%
French2132%
Dutch1422%

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◐

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

  • Hindi given name1.6K records spelled Pyra25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Belgium, Thailand

    Languages: Hindi, English, Assamese

    Also written Pira, পিরা, Pįrã, Pirà, Pîrâ

  • French surname240 records spelled Pyra2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, China

    Also written Pyrä

  • Finnish surname86 records spelled Pyra3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Pyrä

  • Russian surname58 records spelled Pyra5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Пыра, Pyrä

  • Hindi name40 records spelled Pyra4 spellings in the group

    Also written Pyrä

23 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●

Pyra 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 Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of pira.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, to smolder (of a fire, or with the same figurative senses as in English)

    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.

Notable people with this name●

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 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Pyra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20261K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1K#2,920
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026992—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—992#3,133
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008127#12,793
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010115#144,141
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020104#153,590
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000103#147,095
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19619—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19917—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19317—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20246#89,778

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 23 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pyra?
We estimate roughly 1.3 thousand people bear Pyra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Pyra have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.0 thousand people bear Pyra in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled pyra.
Where is Pyra most common?
Pyra is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
What does the name Pyra mean?
Recorded meaning: potato
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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, “Pyra”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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