Girl

Aira

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#1,082
223 girls
2015
#5,470
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Aira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 223 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,082 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Aira in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#1,082 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
223
Since 1880
1,318
Years on record
34

Babies named Aira, every year since 1880

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Girls

Aira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 223 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,082 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 223 (2025).

About the name Aira

In 2025, 223 US girls were named Aira, making it the 1,082nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 210 places from #1,292 in 2024. That is 44 more than the 179 girls named Aira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,082, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 223. For comparison, it was #5,470 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Aira in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 5 babies. In all, 1,318 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 818 babies named Aira.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,058 US girls were named Aira; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 223. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,207 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Aira ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #521 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aura (5,028 babies since 1880), Ara (4,866 babies since 1880) and Ayra (2,274 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aairah are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Finnish and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Aairah (215).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Aira in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Aira by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 36 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Massachusetts10#521—
New Jersey12#620—
Maryland7#655—
Illinois14#669—
Georgia14#711—
North Carolina13#731—
Ohio12#744—
Virginia8#847—
Pennsylvania9#930—
Missouri5#931—
California27#998#3,019
Texas28#1,007—
New York13#1,087—
Michigan5#1,216—
Florida6#1,893—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025223#1,082——
2024179#1,292——
2023129#1,614——
2022128#1,648——
2021101#1,944——
202058#2,824——
201979#2,287——
201860#2,812——
201759#2,837——
201642#3,658——
201524#5,470——
201427#5,030——
201317#7,045——
201221#6,123——
201122#5,942——
201013#8,716——
200910#10,704——
200817#7,422——
200710#10,842——
200610#10,636——
20046#14,228——
200311#9,062——
20025#15,501——
20016#13,554——
20006#13,195——
19996#12,727——
19936#11,807——
19929#8,745——
19915#13,183——
19905#12,990——
19896#10,870——
19886#10,398——
19857#8,332——
19835#10,292——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).