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Aira

#1,082 in 2025Girls' name

Herald, through Airi

Aira has been given to 1,318 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #1,082 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 223 recorded.

Babies named Aira, 2025

1 in 14,900

Aira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aira: meaning, origin, and history

Herald, through Airi

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aira means

Aira belongs to the name family reached through Aira → Airi. Its meaning is “herald”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aira is used in Finnish and Latvian.

Aira is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Airi.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Aira is pronounced /ˈɑi̯rɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,318 girls were recorded with the name Aira between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 223 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,082 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,824 in 2020 to #1,082 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,468 in 2015 to #1,082 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aira?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,900
223 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,210
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,082
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,306 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aira sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,306 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Airas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aira was born before 2021 — so the typical Aira is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
62.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,318
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 62.1% of all recorded uses (818).

Is Aira rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+210
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,742
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,386
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
9.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (223)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,082
2025

Spellings of Aira

Aira is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 10.7% against Aira's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aira is used

Across 2016–2025, Aira was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 15,175 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

212 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 8,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 10,000
  3. 3California1 in 11,111
  4. 4Illinois1 in 11,111
  5. 5Washington1 in 14,286
  6. 6Georgia1 in 16,667
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 16,667
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Aira around the world

Where Aira ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #340
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2025
    #474
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #413
    in 2025
  • France
    2019–2025
    #4,628
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #448
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aira by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,082
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,742
Best rank ever
#1,082
2025
Peak year
2025
223 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,318
Count in 2025
223

Names similar to Aira

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Aira

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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