Eira

What Eira means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #379 vs #1,747 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Eira?

US: Rising: up from #4295 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #549 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 116 girls got the name (#1747 that year). First in the US records in 1979.

How common

• About 1 in 13,856 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,261 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 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 WA (0.24 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.23 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.19 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Eira is #1747 in the US and #379 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 Eira 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
• Aura333 US · 60 E&W
• Aira223 US · 127 E&W
• Ira222 US · 39 E&W
• Era64 US · 14 E&W
• Airah17 US · 60 E&W
• Ara48 US · 10 E&W
• Ora40 US · 7 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 Eira

Girls

• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Luciana#273Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #273 vs #1,809 in 2025
• Genevieve#148possibly “kin, family + woman, wife”^*
• Wren#231Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #703 in 2015, #231 in 2025
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025

For a brother

• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Tatum#202Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #585 in 2015, #202 in 2025
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Roman#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025

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