Maira
Maira was given to 62 girls in 2025, #2,765 among girls’ names; 6,358 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,190 Americans named Maira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 23 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maira?
#2,765 among girls’ names, 2025
Maira fell from #2,637 in 2015 to #2,765 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 38.1 to 38.6 per million.
290 babies in 1992, the peak
Maira peaked in 1992, when 290 girls were given it, #731 among girls’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,765 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,764 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,723 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,743 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,548 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,126 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,027 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 74 | #2,427 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,648 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,126 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,637 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,033 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,031 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,699 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,627 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,194 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,221 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,499 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,501 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,415 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 79 | #2,289 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 95 | #1,968 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,251 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 121 | #1,556 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,529 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,613 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 137 | #1,316 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 143 | #1,266 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 146 | #1,227 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 186 | #1,010 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 205 | #921 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 244 | #827 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 269 | #768 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 290 | #731 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 271 | #761 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 250 | #804 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 230 | #826 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 176 | #952 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 201 | #852 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 179 | #905 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 174 | #909 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 156 | #942 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 150 | #976 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 116 | #1,184 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 111 | #1,192 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 145 | #1,008 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 86 | #1,428 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,445 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,447 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,581 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,716 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,587 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,542 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,795 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,596 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,075 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,237 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,516 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,157 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,343 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,626 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,418 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,427 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,417 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,070 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,863 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,822 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,838 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,589 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,508 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,854 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,995 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maira has been given almost only to girls: 17 boys in 74 years of records.
Girls and boys named Maira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maira, and how old are they?
6,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,358 Americans ever recorded as Maira. The median Maira alive today is 33 years old; half are between 23 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 9,988 people named Maira (9,968 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,876 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 103 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 599 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 792 |
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 Maira born?
The states with the most babies named Maira are New York, Texas and California, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 13 | #1,128 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,551 | 1.6× |
| California | 6 | #2,975 | 2.9× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,368 | 0.2× |
Where Maira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maira is most over-represented in California: since 1944 it was given 2.9 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 Maira with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Maira?
Maira is a less common spelling of Mayra: SSA has recorded 6,358 Maira and 33,561 Mayra since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,830,270 babies since 1880, Maira is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 6,070 babies (1.0%), again the seventh most given.
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 Maira
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 Maira and names like it
- Compare Maira and MayraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaira peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maira since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Maira.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Maira alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.