Jaira
Jaira was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,566 among girls’ names; 544 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaira?
#8,566 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaira rose from #11,283 in 2015 to #8,566 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 7.5 per million.
28 babies in 1999, the peak
Jaira peaked in 1999, when 28 girls were given it, #4,126 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,566 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,273 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,410 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,621 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,240 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,101 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,516 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,533 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,840 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,471 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,283 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,601 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,764 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,752 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,687 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,457 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,403 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,193 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,591 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,011 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,643 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,634 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,000 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,966 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,600 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,577 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,126 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,217 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,092 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,883 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,321 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,372 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,931 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,801 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,664 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,928 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,043 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,693 | 4.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,681 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,882 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaira, and how old are they?
An estimated 537 Americans named Jaira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 604 people named Jaira (585 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 490 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above 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 5,011 babies since 1880, Jaira is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 60 babies (20%), the second 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 Jaira
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 Jaira and names like it
- Compare Jaira and JahairaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJaira peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaira since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Jaira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.