Ayra
Ayra was given to 276 girls in 2025, #939 among girls’ names; 2,274 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,260 Americans named Ayra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ayra?
#939 among girls’ names, 2025
Ayra rose from #2,932 in 2015 to #939 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.03 to 0.17 per 1,000.
285 babies in 2024, the peak
Ayra peaked in 2024, when 285 girls were given it, #929 among girls’ names. The 276 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 276 | #939 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 285 | #929 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 278 | #945 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 245 | #1,044 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 223 | #1,110 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 167 | #1,319 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,708 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,834 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 94 | #2,075 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,345 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,932 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,925 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,275 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,306 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,569 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,003 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,471 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,968 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,430 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,579 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,041 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,446 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,836 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,925 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,724 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,671 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,400 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayra, and how old are they?
2,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,274 Americans ever recorded as Ayra. The median Ayra alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 870 people named Ayra (857 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 837 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,040 |
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 Ayra born?
The states with the most babies named Ayra are New York, California and Texas, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 43 | #405 | 1.4× |
| California | 42 | #738 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 37 | #802 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,179 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #677 | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 11 | #809 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 11 | #862 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #876 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 9 | #769 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 9 | #969 | 0.4× |
Where Ayra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayra is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1976 it was given 1.7 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 Ayra 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 146,670 babies since 1880, Ayra is the sixth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 276 of their 9,207 babies (3.0%), the fourth 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 Ayra
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 Ayra and names like it
- Compare Ayra and AriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAyra peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayra since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ayra.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ayra alive today were born 2013-2025.
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