Áira
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Áira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1934. From airene (“ryegrass”), from Airisa as a rendering of the English Iris, or a phonetic coinage.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 13Kas Ira
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 13Kas Ira
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Áira itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 482 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
25,849 named Ira, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ira in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 1 more, Aira in PH Philippines, FI Finland, LV Latvia and Իրա in AM Armenia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1934. From airene (“ryegrass”), from Airisa as a rendering of the English Iris, or a phonetic coinage.
Sources 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Áira counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #814 | 25,849as Ira | 1 in 13K | 23K | Ira | 482 |
| PH Philippines | #641 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Aira | 99 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Ira | 69 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ira | 148 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 4 | Ira | 127 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,475 | 1 in 1.6K | 8.4K | Aira | 39 |
| MD Moldova | — | 879as Ira | 1 in 3.8K | 879 | — | 13 |
| HR Croatia | — | 514as Ira | 1 in 8.2K | 552 | — | 2 |
| AM Armenia | #550 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Իրա | 16 |
| LV Latvia | — | 447as Ira | 1 in 4.2K | 447 | Aira | 11 |
25,849 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Áira mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1934. From airene (“ryegrass”), from Airisa as a rendering of the English Iris, or a phonetic coinage. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Áira a male or female name?
- Áira is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Áira have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Ira, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Áira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Áira is densest in Finland — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Áira?
- In Finland, the national register counted 3,475 people named Áira, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Áira compared with other names?
- In the United States, Áira is the 814th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A1iraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Áira” — the 814th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.