Meaning not yet researched.
Maira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #732 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #732 in 1992; #2,765 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,765 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #732.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Maira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 girls in 2025. Peak: #732 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 290 (1992).
In 2025, 62 US girls were named Maira, making it the 2,765th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1 place from #2,764 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 62 girls named Maira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #732, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 290. For comparison, it was #2,637 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maira in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 5 babies. In all, 6,358 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,147 babies named Maira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 618 US girls were named Maira; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 74. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,924 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maira ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,128 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maria (570,389 babies since 1880), Mayra (33,561 babies since 1880), Mara (24,054 babies since 1880) and Maura (19,970 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mahirah and Maahira 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mahirah (27), Maahira (10).
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 Maira 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 13 | #1,128 | #1,890 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,368 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,551 | #2,146 |
| California | 6 | #2,975 | #1,997 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,765 | — | — |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,764 | — | — |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,723 | — | — |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,743 | — | — |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,027 | — | — |
| 2018 | 74 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 2015 | 68 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,032 | — | — |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,221 | — | — |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,501 | — | — |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 2004 | 95 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,254 | — | — |
| 2002 | 121 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1999 | 137 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1998 | 143 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1997 | 146 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1996 | 186 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1995 | 205 | #924 | — | — |
| 1994 | 244 | #828 | — | — |
| 1993 | 269 | #769 | — | — |
| 1992 | 290 | #732 | — | — |
| 1991 | 271 | #761 | 6 | #7,871 |
| 1990 | 250 | #805 | — | — |
| 1989 | 230 | #828 | — | — |
| 1988 | 176 | #952 | — | — |
| 1987 | 201 | #852 | 6 | #6,636 |
| 1986 | 179 | #905 | 5 | #7,407 |
| 1985 | 174 | #909 | — | — |
| 1984 | 156 | #942 | — | — |
| 1983 | 150 | #976 | — | — |
| 1982 | 116 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1981 | 111 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1980 | 145 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1979 | 86 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,582 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,716 | — | — |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,587 | — | — |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,542 | — | — |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,597 | — | — |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,344 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,627 | — | — |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,419 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,428 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,418 | — | — |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,071 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,864 | — | — |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,823 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,839 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,700 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,591 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,510 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,997 | — | — |
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).