Semira

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Semira is a given name, most frequently recorded in Syria. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Se Samira.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria1 in 1.1K◐
  • TRTürkiye1 in 33K
  • USUnited States1 in 382K

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

≈2.1K ●

across 9 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
138 ●

56K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 8.5K ◐

North Macedonia

Spellings & scripts●

SemiraLatin · Turkish●29K records
СемираCyrillic · Macedonian●250 records
ᲡემირაGeorgian · Georgian●7 records

Locally spelled Семира in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia.

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●

Se Samira.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Where in the world●

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

Where Semira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria#10130,73931K rec.——Semira5
TR Türkiye—16,33118K rec.——Semira23
US United States—8702.5K rec.1 in 382K870Semira138
SA Saudi Arabia—764157 rec.——Semira14
IQ Iraq—546569 rec.——Semira3
BR Brazil—3510 rec.1 in 603K435Semira1
SE Sweden—272304 rec.1 in 38K272Semira12
ET Ethiopia—262265 rec.——Semira12
MK North Macedonia—250△1 rec.1 in 8.5K250Семира2
NG Nigeria—221371 rec.——Semira18
IN India—186169 rec.——Semira6
AE United Arab Emirates—172188 rec.——Semira14

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

Languages●

  • Turkish29K42%
  • Arabic17K25%
  • Portuguese5.2K8%
  • Spanish3.5K5%
  • English3K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish28,70742%
Arabic16,90125%
Portuguese5,1588%
Spanish3,4795%
English3,0384%

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◐

Semira is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name10K records spelled Semira5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Sëmirä, Sémira, Semíra

  • Amharic given name894 records spelled Semira3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written ሰሚራ, Samiraa

  • French given name689 records spelled Semira5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Syria, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Sémira, Sèmira, Şemira

35 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●

01020304020002010202033 · 2017

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Semira in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1992–2025
Yearrecords
19928
19936
19945
19956
19966
19977
199810
19997
200020
200121
200225
200325
200425
200525
200630
200724
200821
200916
201018
201112
201213
201313
201418
201521
201624
201733
201830
201923
202022
202128
202220
202319
202418
202510

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 34 years between 1992–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Semiramis Zorlu, b. 1928Semiramis Aydınlık, b. 1930Semiramis Pekkan, b. 1948Semira Adamu, b. 1978Eternia, b. 1981

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 42 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Semira
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020870#13,739
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—435#8,183
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—421#15,952
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022351—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—348#17,079
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—272#4,180
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020253—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—202#4,758
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—157#1,160
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025155#575
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024151#574
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022148#548

Reference works 3

  • 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 · 286 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Semira?
We estimate roughly 2.1 thousand people bear Semira (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Semira have the most bearers?
Semira is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled semira.
How common is Semira compared with other names?
In Syria, Semira is the 101st most common given name of 109,868 given names recorded there.
Is Semira a male or female name?
Semira 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 Semira mean?
Recorded meaning: Se Samira.
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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, “Semira” — the 101st most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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