Maira
#2,751 for girls in 2025, 62 births · Last seen for boys in 1991 at #7,271
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 290 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,341since 1944
Maira over time
Rank among girls' names. Maira has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,751 | 62 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,749 | 62 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,704 | 64 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,720 | 63 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,533 | 69 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,091 | 51 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,002 | 54 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,419 | 74 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,635 | 66 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,100 | 53 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,619 | 68 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,005 | 56 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,679 | 66 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,614 | 68 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,185 | 89 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,204 | 89 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,485 | 76 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,485 | 75 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,396 | 78 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,278 | 79 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,962 | 95 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,243 | 76 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,555 | 121 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,523 | 122 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,602 | 110 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,315 | 137 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,265 | 143 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,225 | 146 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,010 | 186 | — | |
| 1995 | #919 | 205 | — | |
| 1994 | #827 | 244 | — | |
| 1993 | #764 | 269 | — | |
| 1992 | #731 | 290 | — | |
| 1991 | #759 | 271 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #802 | 250 | — | |
| 1989 | #825 | 230 | — | |
| 1988 | #952 | 176 | — | |
| 1987 | #852 | 201 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #905 | 179 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #907 | 174 | — | |
| 1984 | #940 | 156 | — | |
| 1983 | #973 | 150 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,178 | 116 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,189 | 111 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,005 | 145 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,420 | 86 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,434 | 80 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,423 | 36 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,546 | 31 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,680 | 28 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,556 | 29 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,506 | 29 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,747 | 25 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,508 | 18 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,030 | 22 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,208 | 33 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,482 | 25 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,266 | 15 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,938 | 18 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,515 | 14 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,755 | 18 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | — | |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maira! It came in at #4,574, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1952, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Maira is popular in 2000
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#882 · 1 in 6,395
- New Jersey#1,054 · 1 in 8,352
- Illinois#1,217 · 1 in 10,177
- Texas#1,226 · 1 in 9,574
- New York#1,256 · 1 in 10,043
Best ever in a state: #230 in New Mexico, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #882 | 35 | 1 in 6,395 |
| New Jersey | #1,054 | 5 | 1 in 8,352 |
| Illinois | #1,217 | 7 | 1 in 10,177 |
| Texas | #1,226 | 16 | 1 in 9,574 |
| New York | #1,256 | 10 | 1 in 10,043 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Maira
- 2 spots since 2024 (#2,749 → #2,751)
- 340 spots since 2020 (#3,091 → #2,751)
- 132 spots since 2015 (#2,619 → #2,751)
- Biggest jump: 205 spots in 1983 (#1,178 → #973)
- Biggest drop: 100 spots in 1988 (#852 → #952)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1992 at #731 (290 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1983–1995
- Highest: 1 in 6,358 girls born in 1992 were named Maira (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,924 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.8% of all girls named Maira (2,141) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #4,574 (1944) | #4,574 |
| 1950s | 64 | #2,755 (1958) | #4,355 |
| 1960s | 168 | #2,208 (1969) | #3,325 |
| 1970s | 384 | #1,420 (1979) | #2,485 |
| 1980s | 1,638 | #825 (1989) | #973 |
| 1990s | 2,141 | #731 (1992) | #962 |
| 2000s | 921 | #1,523 (2001) | #2,073 |
| 2010s | 649 | #2,185 (2010) | #2,726 |
| 2020s | 371 | #2,533 (2021) | #2,758 |
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.
Maira in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 16,509 of them was named Maira, which outranked 90.9% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,588Shivani111
- #1,588Thea111
- #1,588Tracey111
- #1,602Maira110
- #1,602Aya110
- #1,602Bernadette110
- #1,602Bethanie110
- #1,617Angeles109
- #1,617Anjelica109
- #1,617Aysha109
Tied with 14 names at #1,602; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.