Ayra
#939 for girls in 2025, 276 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 285 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,274since 1976
Ayra over time
Rank among girls' names. Ayra has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #939 | 276 |
| 2024 | #929 | 285 |
| 2023 | #944 | 278 |
| 2022 | #1,043 | 245 |
| 2021 | #1,109 | 223 |
| 2020 | #1,318 | 167 |
| 2019 | #1,708 | 122 |
| 2018 | #1,830 | 111 |
| 2017 | #2,074 | 94 |
| 2016 | #2,343 | 80 |
| 2015 | #2,927 | 59 |
| 2014 | #2,922 | 58 |
| 2013 | #3,267 | 49 |
| 2012 | #4,296 | 34 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 |
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| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 |
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| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ayra! It came in at #9,284, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1996, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ayra is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#1,499 · 1 in 9,610
- California#1,728 · 1 in 14,551
- Texas#1,809 · 1 in 13,941
- Florida#1,813 · 1 in 14,451
- New York#1,916 · 1 in 14,973
Best ever in a state: #356 in New Jersey, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #1,499 | 5 | 1 in 9,610 |
| California | #1,728 | 14 | 1 in 14,551 |
| Texas | #1,809 | 12 | 1 in 13,941 |
| Florida | #1,813 | 6 | 1 in 14,451 |
| New York | #1,916 | 6 | 1 in 14,973 |
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See more about Ayra
- 10 spots since 2024 (#929 → #939)
- 379 spots since 2020 (#1,318 → #939)
- 1,988 spots since 2015 (#2,927 → #939)
- Biggest jump: 99 spots in 2023 (#1,043 → #944)
- Biggest drop: 10 spots in 2025 (#929 → #939)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2024 at #929 (285 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2023–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,685 girls born in 2024 were named Ayra (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,823 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 64.8% of all girls named Ayra (1,474) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,284 (1976) | #9,284 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 13 | #9,802 (1997) | #12,107 |
| 2000s | 129 | #5,795 (2003) | #8,741 |
| 2010s | 653 | #1,708 (2019) | #3,289 |
| 2020s | 1,474 | #929 (2024) | #1,047 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ayra in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 22,150 of them was named Ayra, which outranked 87.6% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,321Odessa81
- #2,321Prudence81
- #2,321Ziyah81
- #2,343Ayra80
- #2,343Aavya80
- #2,343Aizah80
- #2,343Birdie80
- #2,366Bethel79
- #2,366Brigid79
- #2,366Brylie79
Tied with 22 names at #2,343; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.