Wira
given name · Latin script
Meaning: hero
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/wira/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 6.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 34K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 98K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
hero
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wira 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.
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: the id-github-names register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Wira 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 Quechua, fat, thick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Nyanja, to boil
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)
- Vira Boarman Whitehouseb. 1875USnot in their usual nameAmerican suffragette (1875–1957)
- Vira Svientsitskab. 1913UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian art historian
- Vera Leșcencob. 1923RUnot in their usual nameSoviet singer (1923–2009)
- Vira Vovkb. 1926BRnot in their usual nameUkrainian writer, critic, and translator (1926–2022)
- Vira Misevychb. 1945UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian Soviet equestrian (1945–1995)
- Vira Prosalovab. 1958UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian linguist
- Vira Hyrychb. 1967UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian journalist and radio producer
- Vira Zozulyab. 1970UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian racewalker
- Vera Brezhnevab. 1982UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian-Russian pop-singer
- Vera Filatovab. 1982UAnot in their usual nameactress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 113 | #1,442 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 113 | #1,442 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 69 | #11,028 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 35 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 33 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 28 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 12 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Wira mean, and where does it come from?
- hero Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wira?
- A machine transcription gives /wira/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Wira a male or female name?
- Wira is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Wira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Wira in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wira.
- How common is the name Wira?
- In Poland, the national register counted 113 people named Wira in 2026, about 1 in 339 thousand residents.
- How common is Wira compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Wira is the 669th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wiraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Wira” — the 669th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.