Aira

What Aira means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Aira yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #340 vs #1,082 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Aira?

US: Rising: up from #5458 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1961 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 223 girls got the name (#1082 that year). First in the US records in 1983.

How common

• About 1 in 7,207 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,994 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,982 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MA (0.42 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.35 per 1,000 girls), NJ (0.34 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Aira is #1082 in the US and #340 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Aira were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ayra276 US · 422 E&W
• Ari476 US · 28 E&W
• Aura333 US · 60 E&W
• Ira222 US · 39 E&W
• Eira116 US · 112 E&W
• Ayrah10 US · 69 E&W
• Era64 US · 14 E&W
• Airah17 US · 60 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Aira

Girls

• Iris#61“rainbow”^*
• Melody#79Editor’s note Up from #148 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 520 US girls in the 2025 records
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Julieta#285Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #805 in 2015, #285 in 2025
• Mabel#201“lovable”^*
• Lucia#83Variant of Lucy, meaning “light”^*

For a brother

• Nico#174Diminutive of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Thiago#50Portuguese, meaning “natal, relating to birth”^*
• Miles#44Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #107 in 2015, #44 in 2025
• Lennox#289Editor’s note Used for both: 75% of US babies named Lennox in 2025 were boys
• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*
• Leo#19“lion”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Aira’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.