Mairi
#16,366 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mairi has been given to 289 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #16,366 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Mairi, 2025
1 in 663,000
Mairi over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mairi?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,366
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mairi sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mairi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mairis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mairi was born before 2003 — so the typical Mairi is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 27.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 56.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 289
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (78).
Is Mairi 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
- −1,781
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,638
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,755
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 45.5%
- Peak was 2011 (11)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.6% average annual change
Spellings of Mairi
Mairi is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 72.2% against Mairi'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.
Mairi around the world
Where Mairi 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 & Wales1996–2025#2,788in 2025
- Scotland1974–2025#429in 2025
- Canada1991–2015#3,185in 2015
- South Australia1958–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mairi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mairi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mairi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.