In 2025, 32 US girls were named Daira, making it the 4,377th most common girls’ name of the year, up 31 places from #4,408 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 32 girls named Daira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,913, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 108. For comparison, it was #7,051 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Daira in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 6 babies. In all, 1,332 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 508 babies named Daira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 323 US girls were named Daira; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dara (14,547 babies since 1880) and Dayra (1,365 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.