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Maira

#2,765 in 2025Girls' name

Sparkle, gleam, flash

Maira has been given to 6,358 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #2,765 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 290 recorded.

Babies named Maira, 2025

1 in 53,500

Maira over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maira: meaning, origin, and history

Sparkle, gleam, flash

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maira means

Maira means “sparkle, gleam, flash”.

Origin, language, and formation

Maira is used in Latvian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,341 girls were recorded with the name Maira between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 290 in 1992; its best national rank was #731 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,126 in 2020 to #2,765 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,637 in 2015 to #2,765 in 2025.

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Maira between 1986 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1987; its best national rank was #6,629 in 1987.

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 Maira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,765
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maira 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 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mairas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maira was born before 1993 — so the typical Maira is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,336
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (2,141).

Is Maira 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
−1
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+361
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−128
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.91×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.4%
Peak was 1992 (290)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#731
1992

Spellings of Maira

Maira is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 52.1% against Maira's 0.08%.

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 Maira is used

Across 2016–2025, Maira was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 22,698 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 8,333
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6Virginia1 in 33,333
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

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.

Maira around the world

Where Maira 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
    #526
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2020
    #700
    in 2020
  • France
    1982–2025
    #578
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #794
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1953–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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.

Notable people named Maira

People whose public names include Maira, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maira in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Maira. Linked forms have their own page here.

MaireMariaMoiraMáire

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Maira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,765
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 361
Best rank ever
#731
1992
Peak year
1992
290 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,341
Count in 2025
62

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,629
1987
Peak year
1987
6 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maira

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

MaiteMaiyaMaisyMaileMaidaShiraMaizyAkiraMaisieMoiraMaizieZairaMaiMaijaMaiahSairaMaiaKairaMaishaMaisynMailaSamiraElmiraMaily

Names with a curve like Maira

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maira, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KristianJanayJessiKassieKrystaChanelleBritanyShanelleLeandraCodiJessikaRikki

Sibling names for Maira

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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