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Airi

#3,977 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Airi has been given to 401 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #3,977 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Airi, 2025

1 in 92,100

Airi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Airi: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Japanese

What Airi means

Airi has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: “herald”.

The naming story behind Airi

One of the source’s documented entries for Airi records a meaning of love, affection.

One of the source’s documented entries for Airi records a meaning of messenger, herald.

Origin, language, and formation

Airi is used in English, Estonian and Finnish. Its origins include Japanese.

Airi is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aili and Eric.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Airi is pronounced /ˈɑi̯ri/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 401 girls were recorded with the name Airi between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,977 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,852 in 2020 to #3,977 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,952 in 2015 to #3,977 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 Airi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 44,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,977
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Airi 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Airi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Airis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Airi was born before 2017 — so the typical Airi is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
401
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (168).

Is Airi 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
+411
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,875
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,975
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (36)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,977
2025

Spellings of Airi

Airi is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 22.6% against Airi's 0.03%.

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 Airi is used

Across 1910–2025, Airi was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 558,903 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —
  4. 4Washington1 in —

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. Airi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Airi around the world

Where Airi 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
    2012–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2017–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Airi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,977
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,875
Best rank ever
#3,977
2025
Peak year
2025
36 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
401
Count in 2025
36

Names similar to Airi

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

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Sibling names for Airi

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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