Maira

Where Maira comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Maira.

  • Vowel-ended
Maira through the years
  1. 1944
    First appearance
    #4,574 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1950
    Maira Mora born
    Director General of the CBSS Secretariat
  3. 1960
    Maira Asare born
    Latvian writer
  4. 1992
    Peak, #731
    290 babies named Maira, the most in any year.
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,265.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Maira Khan · Pakistani actress
  • Maira Asare · Latvian writer, 1960–2015
  • Maira Mora · Director General of the CBSS Secretariat, born 1950
  • Maira Kalman · Israeli American artist and creator of children's books, born 1949
  • Maira Alexandra Rodríguez · Beauty pageant titleholder, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.