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Amaira

Feminine · “princess”

2002high 2022
#2438 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare73 girls in 2025

Amaira is a modern Indian name generally read as a princess or a moon, and its formation is recent.

How old is the name Amaira?

Amaira first appears in US birth records in 2002 — 23 years ago. The typical Amaira is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,000 people named Amaira are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Amaira most popular?

Amaira peaked in 2022, reaching #1782 nationally. Today it ranks #2438, 656 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.

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Where it comes from

Our story of Amaira

Our story of Amaira is a story of a very new Indian name with borrowed readings. It appears in Indian records from the 2010s among a wave of vowel-heavy girls' names — Amaira, Anaira, Myra, Kiara — built to sound at once Sanskrit and international. 'Princess' comes from the Arabic Amira, which is a real word; whether Amaira descends from it is not documented. The name is about a decade old and saying so is more useful than inventing a pedigree.

Meaningscholars disagree

princess; moon

Generally given as Sanskrit or Arabic for 'princess' or 'moon', attributions that circulate widely in modern naming sources without clear documentation. The name may be built on Amira, Arabic for princess. Neither is established. Honest sources record it as modern.

Pronouncing Amaira

ah-MY-rah

Three syllables, stress in the middle. Amaira and Amayra are said identically.

Nicknames for Amaira

Moderate

AmaThe front of the name, used inside families rather than generally
AiraThe back of the name, and a name in its own right in Filipino use
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 2002–20251155801157320022025

US babies named Amaira per year from 2002 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#17822000s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
2002
Most girls named
2022115 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1782reached in 2022
Change vs 2024
−5.2%73 in 2025, from 77
Amaira sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2022, with 115 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.

Amaira in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • अमायरा in Hindi — transliteration
  • Amayra in English — spelling variant
  • Amira in Arabic — related form

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

Amairas among us

1,000

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

About 1 girl in 22,017 born in 2025 was named Amaira

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

Spellings of Amaira

#2438
Amaira on the 2025 chart
#818
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amaira went to 73 girls in 2025, but Amayra and Amairah are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 142, which makes it the 818th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,620 places above the chart.

  • Amaira73
  • Amayra59
  • Amairah10

About 1 girl in 11,319 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 22,017 for Amaira 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 Chanice test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amaira's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Chanice climbed just as high around 1992, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Chanice's path sketches the road Amaira is walking now.

40%chance Amaira will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Amaira, aligned on its peakChanice· peak 1992not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-20 yrs+20 yrsChanice · #15539Amaira today
Amaira today is about where Chanice stood in 1995 — 3 years past a #1782-sized peak. By 2010, Chanice had settled around #15539.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Amaira 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 Amaira is headed

20022030

US babies named Amaira per year, 2002 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Amaira should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady-7% by 2030projected around #2,682 in 2030

Medium 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.

Amaira beside its neighbors

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

Amairathis name73#2438Saniya73#2438Rorie73#2438Ellia73#2438Tamar73#2438

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • Aira is available as a short form with real use elsewhere.
  • Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
  • It is genuinely distinctive.
What to consider
  • The attributed meanings are not documented.
  • Amira and Amaira are close enough to confuse.
  • It is very new even in India.

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Frequently asked

How many Amairas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Amaira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Amaira?
Amaira is the most-used spelling in US records — 73 of the 142 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Amayra and Amairah.
How popular is the name Amaira in 2025?
Amaira ranks #2438 among US girl names in 2025, with 73 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Amaira?
About 1 in every 22,017 US girls born in 2025 was named Amaira — 73 in all.
Will my child share the name Amaira with classmates?
Amaira will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Amaira

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Saniya#2438 · Rorie#2438 · Ellia#2438 · Tamar#2438 · Zena#2438 · Amaryllis#2438 · Mable#2438 · Geraldine#2438

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