Nira

Where Nira comes from

Nira hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,713 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1933
    Peak, #463
    201 babies named Nira — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,148.
  4. 1964
    Nira Wickramasinghe born
    Sri Lankan historian
  5. 1969
    Nira Pereg born
    Israeli artist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Nira Wickramasinghe · Sri Lankan historian, born 1964
  • Nira Pereg · Israeli artist, born 1969
  • Nira Rabinovitch · Israeli actress, born 1943
  • Nira Dyn · Israeli mathematician, born 1942
  • Nira Gal · Israeli singer, actress and vocal coach, born 1948

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.