Mayra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maʝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mayra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Puerto Rico it is the 27th most common given name.
- ECEcuador1 in 315(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 385
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 435
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 Mayra 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)
- #814 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- 1 in 315 (inferred from the name graph)
65,662 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maira in BR Brazil, HN Honduras, PK Pakistan.
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)
Melashka, Melenee, Meleney, Melenia, Viento de primavera
Sources 2
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Nordic Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mayra 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 | #744 | 65,662 | 1 in 5.1K | 66K | Mayra | 420 |
| EC Ecuador | #86 | 53,593 | 1 in 315 | 54K | Mayra | 72 |
| BR Brazil | #379 | 52,120as Maira | 1 in 4.1K | 56K | Maira | 157 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Maira | 60 |
| AR Argentina | #283 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 144 | Mayra | 116 |
| NI Nicaragua | #44 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 385 | — | Mayra | 34 |
| HN Honduras | #168 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 645 | — | Maira | 34 |
| SV El Salvador | #167 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 540 | — | Mayra | 49 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #27 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 435 | 5 | Mayra | 57 |
65,662 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mayra is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, serves you right
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Myra Keatonb. 1877USnot in their usual nameFilm actress (1877-1955)
- Myra Hessb. 1890GBnot in their usual nameBritish pianist (1890–1965)
- Myra Carterb. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1929–2016)
- Myra Francesb. 1943GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (1942–2021)
- Myra Turleyb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Myra Melfordb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican avant-garde jazz pianist and composer
- Myra Lucretia Taylorb. 1960USnot in their usual nameactress
- Tori Amosb. 1963USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter (born 1963)
- Mayra Andradeb. 1985CVCape Verdean singer
- Mayra Aguiarb. 1991BRBrazilian judoka
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 77 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 66K | #764 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 54K | #21 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 33K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33K | #764 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 21K | #1,359 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 151 | #764 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 127 | #764 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 86 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 47 | #1,097 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 34 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 18 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mayra a male or female name?
- Mayra is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mayra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 66 thousand people named Mayra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mayra.
- Where is Mayra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mayra is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 315 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Mayra?
- A machine transcription gives /maʝ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Mayra?
- In the etymology graph, Myra is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Mayra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 65,662 people named Mayra in 2020, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Mayra compared with other names?
- In the United States, Mayra is the 744th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mayra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mayraThe 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, “Mayra” — the 744th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.