Meaning not yet researched.
Ayra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 276 in 2025. Its best rank was #929 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #929 in 2024; #939 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ayra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#939 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #929.
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Ayra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 276 girls in 2025. Peak: #929 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 285 (2024).
In 2025, 276 US girls were named Ayra, making it the 939th most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #929 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 285 girls named Ayra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #929, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 285. For comparison, it was #2,932 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ayra in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 2,274 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,474 babies named Ayra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,881 US girls were named Ayra; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 285. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,823 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ayra ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #405 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 Aira (1,318 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aayara are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aayara (5).
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.
No nicknames listed for Ayra in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 43 | #405 | #2,004 |
| Nevada | 5 | #527 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #667 | — |
| New Jersey | 11 | #677 | — |
| California | 42 | #738 | #2,764 |
| Washington | 8 | #746 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #769 | — |
| Texas | 37 | #802 | #1,832 |
| Illinois | 11 | #809 | #1,182 |
| Georgia | 11 | #862 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #876 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #898 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #969 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #977 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,063 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,179 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,298 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 276 | #939 | — | — |
| 2024 | 285 | #929 | — | — |
| 2023 | 278 | #945 | — | — |
| 2022 | 245 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 2021 | 223 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 2020 | 167 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 2017 | 94 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,345 | — | — |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,927 | — | — |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,308 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,571 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,005 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,475 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,971 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,434 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,584 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,047 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,451 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,841 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,930 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,731 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,679 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,914 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,402 | — | — |
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).