Aira

“Variant of Airi — messenger, herald (Finnish and Estonian, from airut)” — Finnish origin

Girl's name · #1082 in the US (2025) · Trending

Aira is climbing: on the charts since 1983, it reached #1082 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 220 girls given the name last year. Roughly 1,300 have carried it all-time. Together with its spelling variants Ayra (#939) and Aaira (#2645), Aira would rank around #536 with about 560 births last year — the newborns split about 48/40/12 across Ayra, Aira, and Aaira.

Around the world: about 1 in 860 girls in New Zealand (2025) · about 1 in 2,000 girls in England & Wales (2025) · about 1 in 2,200 girls in Canada (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 14 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Airas

Aira Villegas — Filipino boxer
Aira Kaal — Estonian author, journalist and poet (1911-1988)
Aira Mitsuki — Japanese singer
Aira Yuhki — Japanese singer
Aira Samulin — Finnish dance teacher and entrepreneur

In stories & tradition

Aira Shiratori — Dandadan

What Airas become

Among 43 notable people named Aira:

Entertainers appear 2.55× more often than among typical names — e.g. Aira Mitsuki, Japanese singer.

Similar names: Ayra · Nami · Ayat · Zyra · Liyana · Eira

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