Aira
Aira was given to 223 girls in 2025, #1,082 among girls’ names; 1,318 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Aira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aira mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Aira is “a female given name”
Variant of Airi.
/ˈɑi̯rɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aira?
#1,082 among girls’ names, 2025
Aira rose from #5,468 in 2015 to #1,082 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.01 to 0.14 per 1,000.
223 babies in 2025, the peak
Aira peaked in 2025, when 223 girls were given it, #1,082 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 179 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 223 | #1,082 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 179 | #1,292 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 129 | #1,614 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 128 | #1,648 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,944 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,824 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 79 | #2,287 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,811 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,837 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,658 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,468 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,028 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,041 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,120 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,939 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,712 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,700 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,418 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,838 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,631 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,222 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,057 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,495 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,547 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,187 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,801 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,738 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,176 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,984 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,393 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,329 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,289 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aira, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,318 Americans ever recorded as Aira. The median Aira alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 814 people named Aira (792 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 511 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 48 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 142 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aira born?
The states with the most babies named Aira are Texas, California and Illinois, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 28 | #1,007 | 1.2× |
| California | 27 | #998 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 14 | #669 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 14 | #711 | 0.6× |
| New York | 13 | #1,087 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #731 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #620 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 12 | #744 | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #521 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #930 | 0.6× |
Where Aira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aira is most over-represented in Texas: since 1983 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aira with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 152,799 babies since 1880, Aira is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 223 of their 9,629 babies (2.3%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aira
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aira and names like it
- Compare Aira and AriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAira peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aira since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Aira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.