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Aaira

Feminine

2009high 2024
#2645 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare65 girls in 2025

Aaira is a very new Indian and Muslim name, and the readings given for it are not documented in any source language.

How old is the name Aaira?

Aaira first appears in US birth records in 2009 — 16 years ago. The typical Aaira is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Aaira are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Aaira most popular?

Aaira peaked in 2024, reaching #2067 nationally. Today it ranks #2645, 578 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.

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Where it comes from

Our story of Aaira

Our story of Aaira is a story of a name a decade old. It appears in Indian and Pakistani records from the 2010s among a wave of short vowel-heavy girls' names — Aaira, Amaira, Aira, Myra — built to sound at once Arabic and Sanskrit without descending from a documented word in either. The readings supplied in naming books are not sourced, and saying so is more useful than repeating them.

Meaningnot established

Not established

No documented etymology. It is a recent formation appearing in Indian and Pakistani naming from the 2010s; 'noble' and 'respectful' are given without a source. It may be built on Aira or Amira. Honest sources record it as a modern coinage.

Pronouncing Aaira

AY-rah

Two syllables, stress on the first. The doubled a marks a long vowel in transliteration.

Nicknames for Aaira

Moderate

AiraThe shorter spelling, and a name in its own right in Filipino use
AiThe front sound alone, and a name of its own in Japanese
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 2009–202593470936520092025

US babies named Aaira per year from 2009 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#20672000s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
2009
Most girls named
202493 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2067reached in 2024
Change vs 2024
−30.1%65 in 2025, from 93
Aaira sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2024, with 93 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Aaira in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Aaira in Urdu — same name
  • Aira in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.

Aairas among us

600

people named Aaira are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 24,727 born in 2025 was named Aaira

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Aaira

#2645
Aaira on the 2025 chart
#442
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aaira went to 65 girls in 2025, but Ayra, Aira and Aayra and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 8 spellings went to 637, which makes it the 442nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,203 places above the chart.

  • Ayra276
  • Aira223
  • Aaira65
  • Aayra24
  • Airah17
  • Ayira14
  • Ayrah10
  • Aairah8

About 1 girl in 2,523 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 24,727 for Aaira itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Makya test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aaira's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Makya climbed just as high around 2004, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Makya's path sketches the road Aaira is walking now.

40%chance Aaira will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Aaira, aligned on its peakMakya· peak 2004not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-20 yrs+20 yrsMakya · #10420Aaira today
Aaira today is about where Makya stood in 2005 — 1 year past a #2067-sized peak. By 2020, Makya had settled around #10420.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Aaira sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Aaira is headed

20092030

US babies named Aaira per year, 2009 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Aaira looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 55% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.

Rising+55% by 2030projected around #2,025 in 2030

Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Aaira beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Aaira in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Aairathis name65#2645Caliana65#2645Esra65#2645Wylie65#2645Henrietta65#2645

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • Aira is available as a shorter spelling with real use elsewhere.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
  • It is genuinely distinctive.
What to consider
  • There is no documented meaning.
  • Aira and Aaira are both in circulation.
  • It is very new even in South Asia.

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Frequently asked

How many Aairas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Aaira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Aaira?
Aaira is one of 8 recorded spellings. Ayra is the more common one — 276 births in 2025 against 65 for Aaira.
How popular is the name Aaira in 2025?
Aaira ranks #2645 among US girl names in 2025, with 65 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Aaira?
About 1 in every 24,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Aaira — 65 in all.
Will my child share the name Aaira with classmates?
Aaira will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Aaira

Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.

Caliana#2645 · Esra#2645 · Wylie#2645 · Henrietta#2645 · Mahogany#2645 · Amaiah#2645 · Charlize#2645 · Journii#2645

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