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
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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.