Mayra
Mayra was given to 86 girls in 2025, #2,168 among girls’ names; 33,561 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,600 Americans named Mayra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 28 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mayra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mayra mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Mayra is “a female given name”
/ˈmaiɾa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mayra?
#2,168 among girls’ names, 2025
Mayra fell from #1,284 in 2015 to #2,168 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.05 per 1,000.
1,548 babies in 1987, the peak
Mayra peaked in 1987, when 1,548 babies were given it (1,512 girls, #182 among girls’ names). The 86 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,168 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 133 | #1,583 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 119 | #1,734 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,582 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,627 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 134 | #1,576 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 139 | #1,557 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,509 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 161 | #1,421 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 182 | #1,318 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 189 | #1,284 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 163 | #1,408 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 189 | #1,263 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 207 | #1,192 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 247 | #1,015 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 307 | #870 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 327 | #853 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 382 | #769 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 414 | #707 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 437 | #661 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 443 | #632 | 0.24 |
| 2004 | 465 | #602 | 0.25 |
| 2003 | 541 | #522 | 0.30 |
| 2002 | 551 | #502 | 0.31 |
| 2001 | 571 | #489 | 0.32 |
| 2000 | 572 | #478 | 0.31 |
| 1999 | 664 | #418 | 0.37 |
| 1998 | 797 | #361 | 0.45 |
| 1997 | 788 | #352 | 0.45 |
| 1996 | 893 | #316 | 0.51 |
| 1995 | 1,021 | #269 | 0.58 |
| 1994 | 1,246 | #229 | 0.70 |
| 1993 | 1,337 | #214 | 0.74 |
| 1992 | 1,437 | #200 | 0.78 |
| 1991 | 1,460 | #205 | 0.78 |
| 1990 | 1,503 | #195 | 0.79 |
| 1989 | 1,455 | #191 | 0.79 |
| 1988 | 1,434 | #192 | 0.81 |
| 1987 | 1,512 | #182 | 0.87 |
| 1986 | 1,501 | #179 | 0.87 |
| 1985 | 1,166 | #225 | 0.68 |
| 1984 | 1,128 | #227 | 0.67 |
| 1983 | 858 | #274 | 0.51 |
| 1982 | 549 | #414 | 0.32 |
| 1981 | 606 | #379 | 0.36 |
| 1980 | 876 | #281 | 0.53 |
| 1979 | 595 | #377 | 0.37 |
| 1978 | 403 | #483 | 0.26 |
| 1977 | 211 | #731 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 217 | #683 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 260 | #610 | 0.18 |
| 1974 | 197 | #728 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 164 | #800 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 154 | #846 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 163 | #845 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 173 | #802 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 145 | #869 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 126 | #925 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 115 | #949 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 98 | #1,061 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 80 | #1,206 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 84 | #1,209 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 82 | #1,215 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,549 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 59 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,749 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,766 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,589 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,714 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,990 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,881 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,125 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,094 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,485 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mayra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 33,561 Americans recorded as Mayra, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 86 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mayra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mayra, and how old are they?
32,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 33,561 Americans ever recorded as Mayra. The median Mayra alive today is 35 years old; half are between 28 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 65,662 people named Mayra (65,535 women and girls, 127 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 32,156 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 433 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,760 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 18,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,890 |
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 Mayra born?
The states with the most babies named Mayra are Texas, California and Florida, with 89% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,342 | 2.3× |
| California | 16 | #1,459 | 3.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,377 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #961 | 0.2× |
Where Mayra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mayra is most over-represented in California: since 1948 it was given 3.4 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 Mayra 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 4,829,996 babies since 1880, Mayra is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 86 of their 6,049 babies (1.4%), the sixth 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 Mayra
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 Mayra and names like it
- Compare Mayra and MaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMayra peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mayra since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Mayra: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Mayra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Mayra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.