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Eira

#1,749 in 2025Girls' name

Relief

Eira has been given to 878 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #1,749 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 116 recorded.

Babies named Eira, 2025

1 in 28,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eira: meaning, origin, and history

Relief

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eira means

Eira means “relief”, associated with eir.

Origin, language, and formation

Eira is used in Finnish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Eira is pronounced /ˈei̯rɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 878 girls were recorded with the name Eira between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 116 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,749 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,425 in 2020 to #1,749 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,324 in 2015 to #1,749 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 Eira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 28,600
116 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,749
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,811 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eira 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,811 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eira was born before 2020 — so the typical Eira is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
878
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (474).

Is Eira 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
+646
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+676
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,575
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.52×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (116)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,749
2025

Spellings of Eira

Eira is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 11.3% against Eira'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 Eira is used

Across 2016–2025, Eira was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 33,228 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 11,111
  2. 2New York1 in 20,000
  3. 3Virginia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 33,333
  6. 6Colorado1 in 33,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

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.

Eira around the world

Where Eira 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
    1996–2025
    #379
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2021–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2025
    #381
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2025
    #3,894
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #44
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Eira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,749
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 676
Best rank ever
#1,749
2025
Peak year
2025
116 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
878
Count in 2025
116

Names similar to Eira

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

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Sibling names for Eira

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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