Entry № 5882 · Basque origin

Leyre Leyre — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAY-reh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Basque
Meaning
"Iconic Monastery of Leyre (Navarrese heritage)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Basque)

A name that means "iconic monastery of leyre (navarrese heritage)".

Leyre Bilbao — Basque-Spanish writer. Princess Leyre — Basque-Navarrese heritage naming.

Iconic Monastery of Leyre.

The name in its native script.

Leyre
Transliteration
Leyre
Pronunciation
/ ˈleɪ.rɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Leyre stands.

Leyre does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Leyres before her.

Real people
Leyre Pajín
Spanish Minister of Health 2010-2011.
born 1973
In fiction
Monastery of Leyre
9th-c. iconic Navarrese royal pantheon.

Names connected to Leyre.

The number behind Leyre.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Leyre reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.