Lira

14,173 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lira in the 2020 census, making it the 2,481st most common in the country. That is about one person in 21,100.

By the numbers

People: 14,173
Rank: 2,481st
How common: 1 in 21,100
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lira described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 89.5%
White, not Hispanic 8.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Lira

Erik Lira (born 2000)Mexican footballer
Gonzalo Lira (1968–2024)Chilean-American novelist, filmmaker and blogger

People named Lira with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lira

Liriano

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.