Given name & surname
Taira
Taira is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Spanish.
Original Japanese平良
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Japanese 平 (Taira), from Japanese 平良 (Taira).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Taira through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,022
- 0 boys · 1,022 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 46 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 46 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,016 as a first name in 2020; 680 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Taira’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Taira is a Roman-alphabet rendering of たいら. In English usage, Taira was borrowed from the Japanese form 平. In Japanese usage, Taira as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 平良.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Taira
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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