Meaning not yet researched.
Mayra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 86 in 2025. Its best rank was #179 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #179 in 1986; #2,168 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mayra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,168 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #179.
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Mayra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 86 girls in 2025. Peak: #179 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 1,512 (1987).
In 2025, 86 US girls were named Mayra, making it the 2,168th most common girls’ name of the year, down 585 places from #1,583 in 2024. That is 47 fewer than the 133 girls named Mayra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #179, reached in 1986. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,512, in 1987. For comparison, it was #1,284 in 2015 and #5,096 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mayra in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 7 babies. In all, 33,561 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 11,308 babies named Mayra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,363 US girls were named Mayra; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 182. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,689 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mayra ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #961 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mara (24,054 babies since 1880), Maura (19,970 babies since 1880), Maira (6,358 babies since 1880) and Marah (2,365 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marra, Marae and Mayara are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marra (344), Marae (237), Mayara (114), Maiara (93), Marai (92), Marrah (90), Mahra (87), Mahera (38), Mairah (18), Maera (12), Maray (11), Mahara (11), and more.
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 Mayra 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #961 | — |
| Texas | 19 | #1,342 | #952 |
| California | 16 | #1,459 | #882 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,377 | #929 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 2024 | 133 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 2023 | 119 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 2020 | 134 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 2019 | 139 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 2017 | 161 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 2016 | 182 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 2015 | 189 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 2014 | 163 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 2013 | 189 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 2012 | 207 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 2011 | 247 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 2010 | 307 | #870 | — | — |
| 2009 | 327 | #853 | — | — |
| 2008 | 382 | #769 | — | — |
| 2007 | 414 | #707 | — | — |
| 2006 | 437 | #661 | — | — |
| 2005 | 443 | #632 | — | — |
| 2004 | 465 | #602 | — | — |
| 2003 | 541 | #522 | — | — |
| 2002 | 551 | #502 | — | — |
| 2001 | 571 | #489 | — | — |
| 2000 | 572 | #478 | — | — |
| 1999 | 664 | #418 | — | — |
| 1998 | 797 | #361 | — | — |
| 1997 | 788 | #352 | — | — |
| 1996 | 893 | #316 | 9 | #6,329 |
| 1995 | 1,021 | #269 | 8 | #6,774 |
| 1994 | 1,246 | #229 | 17 | #3,850 |
| 1993 | 1,337 | #214 | 15 | #4,158 |
| 1992 | 1,437 | #200 | 17 | #3,693 |
| 1991 | 1,460 | #205 | 22 | #2,961 |
| 1990 | 1,503 | #195 | 28 | #2,469 |
| 1989 | 1,455 | #191 | 32 | #2,187 |
| 1988 | 1,434 | #192 | 20 | #2,820 |
| 1987 | 1,512 | #182 | 36 | #1,822 |
| 1986 | 1,501 | #179 | 41 | #1,610 |
| 1985 | 1,166 | #225 | 18 | #2,788 |
| 1984 | 1,128 | #227 | 21 | #2,409 |
| 1983 | 858 | #274 | 20 | #2,470 |
| 1982 | 549 | #414 | 12 | #3,616 |
| 1981 | 606 | #379 | 11 | #3,768 |
| 1980 | 876 | #281 | 12 | #3,544 |
| 1979 | 595 | #377 | — | — |
| 1978 | 403 | #483 | 5 | #6,441 |
| 1977 | 211 | #731 | — | — |
| 1976 | 217 | #683 | — | — |
| 1975 | 260 | #610 | — | — |
| 1974 | 197 | #728 | — | — |
| 1973 | 164 | #800 | — | — |
| 1972 | 154 | #846 | — | — |
| 1971 | 163 | #845 | — | — |
| 1970 | 173 | #802 | — | — |
| 1969 | 145 | #869 | — | — |
| 1968 | 126 | #925 | — | — |
| 1967 | 115 | #949 | — | — |
| 1966 | 98 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1965 | 80 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1964 | 84 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1963 | 82 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1961 | 59 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,590 | — | — |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,715 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,992 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,882 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,127 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,225 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,096 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,768 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,487 | — | — |
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).