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How popular is the name Maira?
Births per year, rank history and how many Mairas are alive today.
Maira (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 526th in 2025 with 76 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2024, when 123 babies were given the name, the 358th most popular that year. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Maira is one spelling of a name also recorded as Marah and Meira; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Maira you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Mairas born in England and Wales are between 5 and 15, and there are at least 1,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Maira - on average, only one in every 197 such rooms contains a Maira.
How many babies are named Maira each year?
Includes all spellings: Maira, Marah, Meira. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Maira spelling rank?
Where does the Marah spelling rank?
Where does the Meira spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Maira most popular?
Maira peaked in 2024, when 134 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Maira?
At least 1,600 people named Maira in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Maira?
Most living Mairas are between 5 and 15; the most common age is about 2.
Is Maira becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.