Maira
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maira 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. Recorded meaning: ) Mayra: weibl. Vom., Abwand lung von.
- COColombia≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 4.1K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 7.3K
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 Maira 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 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
65,662 named Mayra, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mayra in US United States, AR Argentina, CO Colombia and 4 more.
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)
) Mayra: weibl. Vom., Abwand lung von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maira 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 | 65,662as Mayra | 1 in 5.1K | 66K | Mayra | 420 |
| EC Ecuador | #86 | 53,593as Mayra | 1 in 315 | 54K | Mayra | 72 |
| BR Brazil | #379 | 52,120 | 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 |
| CO Colombia | #136 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 25 | Mayra | 134 |
| 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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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)
Maira is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Principessa
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Basque, trough
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In Aymara, Medtano,ni grande. ni cht corDfzefe detüdo. ' '
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Maira Kalmanb. 1949USIsraeli American artist and creator of children's books (born 1949)
- Maira Morab. 1950LVDirector General of the CBSS Secretariat
- Maira Asareb. 1960LVLatvian writer
- Maira Kreislereb. 1970LVLatvian librarian (1970-)
- Maíra Góesb. 1979BRBrazilian actress
- Maira Bodenhöferb. 1986CLChilean actor
- Maira Alexandra Rodríguezb. 1991VEBeauty pageant titleholder
- Maira Sakuragib. 1995JPJapanese actor
- Maïra Schmittb. 2000FRFrench actress
- Maira KhanPKPakistani actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 85 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 242 | #83,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 232 | #76,946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 224 | #83,834 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 79 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Maira mean, and where does it come from?
- ) Mayra: weibl. Vom., Abwand lung von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- In which country does Maira 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.
- Is Maira a male or female name?
- Maira 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.
- How common is the name Maira?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 52,120 people named Maira in 2022, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Maira compared with other names?
- In the United States, Maira is the 744th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mairaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Maira” — the 744th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.