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Aira

Meaning
Messenger, herald
Origin
Variant of Airi · Finnish and Estonian, from airut (from Finnish)

Girl's name · #1082 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Aira is climbing: on the charts since 1983, it reached #1082 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 220 girls given the name last year. Roughly 1,300 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 14 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#242 in New Zealand (2025) · #340 in England & Wales (2025) · #413 in Ireland (2025) · #475 in Scotland (2025) · #782 in Sweden (2025) · #793 in Switzerland (2025) · #1,293 in Belgium (2025) · #448 in Canada (2024).

Famous Airas

In stories & tradition

What Airas become

Among 43 notable people named Aira:

Entertainers appear 2.55× more often than among typical names — e.g. Aira Mitsuki, Japanese singer.

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Ayra (#939) and Aaira (#2645), Aira would rank around #536 with about 560 births last year — the newborns split about 48/40/12 across Ayra, Aira, and Aaira.

Similar names: Ayra · Nami · Ayat · Zyra · Liyana · Eira

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