Mayra
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 160 babies a year in the US.
Mayra by the numbers
In 2025, 18 babies in England and Wales were named Mayra. In the US, 160 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 1,513 babies in 1987, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Mayra
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 Mayra. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Mayaillusion; mother; water1,259 in England and Wales (2025)
- Myramyrrh or fragrant oil612 in the US (2017)
- Marabitter74 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mauradark; great; feminine form of Maurus189 in the US (2017)
- Mairaself-sustaining, generous76 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maysawalking with a proud gait35 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Mayra
Names that are said the same way as Mayra, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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