Eira
Eira was given to 116 girls in 2025, #1,749 among girls’ names; 878 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eira mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Eira is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “relief” (eir).
Also “a Finnish surname transferred from the given name”
From an Old Norse goddess of medicine, Eir, eir (“relief”).
/ˈei̯rɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eira?
#1,749 among girls’ names, 2025
Eira rose from #4,324 in 2015 to #1,749 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 18.5 to 72.2 per million.
116 babies in 2025, the peak
Eira peaked in 2025, when 116 girls were given it, #1,749 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 76 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,749 | 72.2 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,395 | 46.9 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,596 | 42.4 |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,323 | 48.8 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,758 | 37.8 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,425 | 44.5 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,659 | 38.7 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,882 | 34.1 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,016 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,023 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,324 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,809 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,080 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,173 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,913 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,530 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,900 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,317 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,329 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,005 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,252 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,928 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,185 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,158 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,149 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,648 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,952 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,866 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,636 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eira, and how old are they?
An estimated 872 Americans named Eira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 671 people named Eira (657 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 419 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,728 babies since 1880, Eira is the fourth most given (9.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 116 of their 235 babies (49%), the 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 Eira
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 Eira and names like it
- Compare Eira and EraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEira peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eira since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Eira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Eira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.