Mayra
Feminine
Mayra is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 33,217 girls against 344 boys since 1880.
Mayra is a Spanish name with a disputed parent — Myra, Maira or Mireia — and its rise in American records tracks Spanish-speaking naming rather than English.
How old is the name Mayra?
Mayra first appears in US birth records in 1948 — 77 years ago. The typical Mayra alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 32,500 people named Mayra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mayra most popular?
Mayra peaked in 1986, reaching #179 nationally. Today it ranks #2153, 1,974 places below that high. See the whole 1986 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Myra to Mayra
The story of Mayra
Myra was coined by an English poet around 1580 and has no ancient history; Mireia comes from Mistral's 1859 Provençal epic Mirèio and became a Catalan and Spanish name from there. Mayra appears in Spanish-speaking use in the twentieth century, drawing on one or both, and entered American records through Hispanic families, rising through the 1970s and peaking in the early 1990s.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
No settled origin. It is read as a Spanish form of Myra, which the poet Fulke Greville coined in the sixteenth century; as a form of the Greek Moira, 'fate'; and as a variant of the Catalan Mireia, from a Provençal poem. None is documented as the source of the Spanish name.
How the name formed
- Myra
- Mayra
Related forms: Mayra · Myra · Mireia
Pronouncing Mayra
MY-ruh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Spanish says MAI-ra with a clearer diphthong.
Nicknames for Mayra
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1948
- Most girls named
- 19871,512 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #179reached in 1986
- Change vs 2023
- −27.7%86 in 2025, from 119
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.
Mayra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mayra in Spanish — same name
- Myra in English — related form
- Mireia in Catalan — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Mayras among us
people named Mayra are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 18,689 born in 2025 was named Mayra
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mayra
- #2153
- Mayra on the 2025 chart
- #812
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mayra went to 86 girls in 2025, but Maira is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 148, which makes it the 812th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,341 places above the chart.
- Mayra86
- Maira62
About 1 girl in 10,860 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 18,689 for Mayra 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sonja test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mayra's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sonja climbed just as high around 1938, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sonja's path sketches the road Mayra is walking now.
Mayra 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 Mayra is headed
Mayra should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Mayra beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mayra in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two soft syllables that work equally well in Spanish and English mouths.
- It is uncommon in English-speaking use without being unfamiliar.
- May is available as a short form with an independent record.
- The origin is genuinely unsettled among three unrelated candidates.
- The English and Spanish pronunciations differ in the first vowel.
- It is closely dated to the 1980s and 1990s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mayras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 32,500 people named Mayra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mayra?
- Mayra is the most-used spelling in US records — 86 of the 148 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Maira.
- How popular is the name Mayra in 2025?
- Mayra ranks #2153 among US girl names in 2025, with 86 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mayra?
- About 1 in every 18,689 US girls born in 2025 was named Mayra — 86 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mayra with classmates?
- Mayra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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