Maira

A girls’ name of Sanskrit origin, meaning self-sustaining, generous.

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US popularity

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outside the top 1000

UK popularity

#526

76 babies · down from #358

Maira by the numbers

In 2025, 76 babies in England and Wales were named Maira. In the US, 65 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.

Its American peak was 290 babies in 1992, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Maira. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

Names that are said the same way as Maira, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

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