Maira Girl
How popular is Maira?
#2,751 girl name in 2025
62 baby girls were named Maira in the US in 2025, making it the 2751st most popular girl name.
Maira popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,751 for girls (▼ 2 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 62 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-9% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,619 in 2015, #3,091 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1992 (290 girls) |
| Highest rank | #730 in 1992 |
| First recorded | 1944 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Maira counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Mayra family of names ranked #1,215 for girls in 2025 (#1,046 the year before), with 148 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Mayra | 86 | 58% |
| Maira | 62 | 42% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Maira is most popular
Babies named Maira per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (49 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (38 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Virginia: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Maira by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #4,572 |
| 1950s | 64 | #2,754 |
| 1960s | 168 | #2,208 |
| 1970s | 384 | #1,420 |
| 1980s | 1,638 | #823 |
| 1990s | 2,141 | #730 |
| 2000s | 921 | #1,522 |
| 2010s | 649 | #2,185 |
| 2020s | 371 | #2,533 |
Girl names about as popular as Maira
Questions
- Is Maira a boy or girl name?
- Maira is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Maira were girls.
- How popular is the name Maira?
- 62 baby girls were named Maira in the US in 2025, making it the 2751st most popular girl name.
- When was Maira most popular?
- Maira peaked in 1992, when 290 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #730 in 1992.
- How many people are named Maira?
- 6,358 babies have been named Maira in the US since 1880. We estimate about 6,215 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 33.
- Where is Maira most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Maira was most common in New York, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.