Kyra
Kyra comes from Greek, where *kyria* named the woman who ran a household: lady, ruler. Fewer than 200 women in Poland carry it, and it stays rare, given to almost no newborns now.
Kyra Pronunciation
Kyra is pronounced KIH-rah (/ˈkɨra/).
What Kyra means
Where Kyra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Kyra grows from Greek. Its root is kyria, the word for "lady" or "mistress," the feminine of kyrios, "lord." In everyday Greek, kyria was how you addressed a woman of rank, the one who ran a household and answered to no one above her inside it. So the short meaning handed down is plain: lady, ruler.
English speakers took Kyra up much later, and it settled into the language as a given name rather than a title. It has no standard diminutive and no cross-gender pair. It stands on its own.
Say it once. On a class register in a Polish szkoła, Kyra sits among the Kingas and Karolinas, short and unfamiliar and easy to read. The name reaches Poland with its Greek sense intact: a woman addressed as pani, władczyni, a lady who rules.
How many people are named Kyra
1 in 114436 women in Poland is named Kyra. 197 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2248 among female names.
Kyra's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Kyra as a middle name
Kyra is a first name for 197 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4193rd, between Kumbirai (4) and Lamis (4).
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#4191 Krystal4
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#4192 Kumbirai4
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#4193 Kyra4
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#4194 Lamis4
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#4195 Lamprini4