Airah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 60 babies a year in England and Wales.
Airah by the numbers
In 2025, 60 babies in England and Wales were named Airah. In the US, 10 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 12 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Airah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Airah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Amirahprincess; noblewoman189 in England and Wales (2025)
- Aizahmighty, powerful; feminine form of Aziz75 in England and Wales (2025)
- Aairahair or lion; variant of aira33 in England and Wales (2025)
- Afrahjoy and happiness10 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ailahdeer; gazelle9 in England and Wales (2025)
- Aijahmy father is Yahweh; a form of Elijah11 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Airah
Names that are said the same way as Airah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Airah
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