Avira
Avira was given to 54 girls in 2025, #3,035 among girls’ names; 328 Americans have been recorded with it since 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Avira mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Avira is “a unisex given name from Sanskrit.”
Transliteration of Hindi अविरा (avirā), etc.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Avira?
#3,035 among girls’ names, 2025
Avira rose from #9,018 in 2015 to #3,035 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 33.6 per million.
54 babies in 2025, the peak
Avira peaked in 2025, when 54 girls were given it, #3,035 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 37 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,035 | 33.6 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,971 | 22.8 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,594 | 26.8 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,478 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,625 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,770 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,200 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,283 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,412 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,463 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,018 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,830 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avira, and how old are they?
An estimated 326 Americans named Avira 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 6. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 250,960 babies since 1880, Avira is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 6,785 babies (<1%), the third 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 Avira
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 Avira and names like it
- Compare Avira and AveryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAvira peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avira since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Avira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Avira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avira alive today were born 2013-2025.
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