Ayra

What Ayra means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #115 vs #939 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ayra?

US: Rising: up from #2927 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #666 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 285 girls got the name (#929 that year). First in the US records in 1976.

How common

• About 1 in 5,823 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 600 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,052 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 NY (0.55 per 1,000 girls), NV (0.54 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.35 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Ayra is #939 in the US and #115 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 Ayra were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ari476 US · 28 E&W
• Aura333 US · 60 E&W
• Aira223 US · 127 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 Ayra

Girls

• Leilani#60Hawaiian, meaning “a lei; a child + heavenly, royal”^*
• Rory#230“red-haired king”^*
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Kaia#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025

For a brother

• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Enzo#72“home + ruler”^*

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 Ayra’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.