Eira
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Eira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Welsh: modern coinage from the vocabulary word eira ‘snow’.
- FIFinland1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 3.1K
- SESweden1 in 3.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
3,259 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Welsh: modern coinage from the vocabulary word eira ‘snow’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eira counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
3,259 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Eira 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 Spanish, Diosa escandinava de la salud; nombre asociado a la curación y la euforia.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Welsh: modern name, from the vocabulary word eira snow.
as a word
In Galician, threshing floor (a yard, usually paved, used as a clean and even surface for threshing cereals)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, threshing floor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Guarani, wild cat
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(measured from records)
- Eira Hellbergb. 1884SESwedish writer and journalist
- Eira Paunub. 1908FIFinnish theologian
- Eira Käärb. 1918FIFinnish ceramist
- Eira Soriolab. 1935FIFinnish actress (1935-2003)
- Eira Lehtonenb. 1939FIFinnish artistic gymnast (1939-1984)
- Eira Stenbergb. 1943FIFinnish writer
- Eira Kasperb. 1951FIFinnish music teacher and head teacher
- Eira Mollbergb. 1957FIFinnish director and writer
- Anna Abreub. 1990FInot in their usual nameFinnish-Portuguese singer
- Eira TanseyUSAmerican archivist
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(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 6.2K | #563 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 5.7K | #304 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 3.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.1K | #809 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 1.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.5K | — |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 999 | #1,565 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 139 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #19,921 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 4 | #655 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1991 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Eira mean, and where does it come from?
- Welsh: modern coinage from the vocabulary word eira ‘snow’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Eira a male or female name?
- Eira 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.
- In which country does Eira have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Eira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eira.
- Where is Eira most common?
- Eira is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Eira?
- In Finland, the national register counted 3,259 people named Eira, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Eira compared with other names?
- In Finland, Eira is the 807th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eiraThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Eira” — the 807th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.