Hira is an Indian,

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

, and

Māori Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Co ...

surname.

Origins

As a

Japanese surname Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

, it is written with a

kanji are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are ...

meaning "even", "flat", or "peace" (); the same character is also used for the Japanese surname

Taira The was one of the four most important clans that dominated Japanese politics during the Heian period of Japanese history – the others being the Minamoto, the Fujiwara, and the Tachibana. The clan is divided into four major groups, named ...

as well as the Chinese surname spelled Píng in

Hanyu Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin'' literally ...

(reflecting the

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pronunciation). As an

Indian name Indian names are based on a variety of systems and naming conventions, which vary from region to region. In Indian culture, names hold profound significance and play a crucial role in an individual's life. The importance of names is deeply ro ...

, it can also be spelled Heera, and originates from the

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word () meaning "

diamond Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of e ...

". Hira is also a

surname.

Statistics

Statistics compiled by

Patrick Hanks Patrick Wyndham Hanks (24 March 1940 – 1 February 2024) was an English lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. He edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names. Background Hanks was educated a ...

on the basis of the

2011 United Kingdom census A Census in the United Kingdom, census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years. The 2011 census was held in all countries of the UK on 27 March 2011. It was the first UK census which could be completed online via the Inter ...

and the

2011 census of Ireland The 2011 census of Ireland was held on Sunday, 10 April 2011. It was administered by the Central Statistics Office of Ireland and found the population to be 4,588,252 people.

found 293 people with the surname Hira on the island of

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European ...

and one on the island of

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

. The

1881 United Kingdom census The United Kingdom Census of 1881 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 3 April 1881, and was the fifth of the Census in the United Kingdom, UK censuses to include details of household members. Data recorded Detail ...

did not record any bearers of this surname. The 2010 United States Census found 513 people with the surname Hira, making it the 42,308th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 384 (51,024th-most-common) in the 2000 census. In both censuses, about eight-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, while the proportion identifying as

non-Hispanic white Non-Hispanic Whites, also referred to as White Anglo Americans or Non-Latino Whites, are White Americans who are classified by the United States census as "White" and not of Hispanic or Latino origin. According to annual estimates from the Unit ...

fell from 12% in the 2000 census to 6.4% in the 2010 census.

People

* Farida Akhter Hira (), Bangladeshi Awami League politician * Hitesh Hira (born 1971), Zimbabwean cricketer *, Japanese actor * Mannan Hira (1956–2020), Bangladeshi dramatist *

Nari Hira Nari Hira (1938 – 23 August 2024) was an Indian publisher who was the owner of the Mumbai-based Magna Publishing Co. Ltd. that publishes magazines such as ''Stardust (magazine), Stardust'', ''Savvy'', ''Showtime'', ''Society (magazine), Socie ...

(), Indian publisher * Rehana Akter Hira (), Bangladeshi Awami League politician * Rasheda Begum Hira (), Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician * Rezaul Karim Hira (, born 1942), Bangladesh Awami League politician, Minister of Housing and Public Works * Rhonda Hira (born 1965), New Zealand softball player * Ronnie Hira (born 1987), New Zealand cricketer *, Indian-born Japanese hotelier *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese actor

References

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