Aira

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aira: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

3registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#340highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#4798
2008	#5545
2009	#3031
2010	#5707
2011	#4049
2012	#2969
2013	#2176
2014	#2659
2015	#1961
2016	#1920
2017	#2341
2018	#2674
2019	#1782
2020	#1687
2021	#1286
2022	#785
2023	#523
2024	#404
2025	#340

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 19 of the 21 years from 2005 to 2025.

In 2025: #340 among girls in England and Wales, #413 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2005–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #4798 among girls in England and Wales in 2005 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2005–2025
Highest recorded position: #340 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025 (recorded 2005–2025).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #340 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Aira appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 2005, and has registered 511 births with the name.

Aira across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aira's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4798 (2005)	#340 (2025)	#340 (2025)	19 of 21	511 (2005–2025)	127 (2025)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#862 (2008)	#413 (2025)	#413 (2025)	6 of 18	30 (2008–2025)	9 (2025)

Aira by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aira in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	13	3 of 10	4
2010s	102	10 of 10	10
2020sbusiest	396	6 of 10	66

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 66 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 31, from 75 to 106.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Aira appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2005 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #340 in England and Wales in 2025.

Aira's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#340	127	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#404	106	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#523	75	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#785	46	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1286	25	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1687	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1782	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1920	15	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2659	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#413	9	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Aira is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Aira, between 2005 and 2025, in 19 of those 21 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	2005–2025	19	#340 in 2025
Republic of Ireland	2008–2025	6	#413 in 2025
Scotland	2024	1	#638 in 2024

Aira was ranked #340 in England and Wales · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Hoorain#337
Lexi#337
Philippa#337
Elara#340
Adelaide#342
Elowyn#342
Ida#342
Aliyah#345

Aira and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Aira without appearing here.

Aira moved ahead of

Finley
In 2018 they stood at #2674 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1782 and #5591.
Kirsten
In 2018 they stood at #2674 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1782 and #5591.
Cecilie
In 2012 they stood at #4049 and #2636 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2176 and #5742.
Finn
In 2012 they stood at #5707 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2176 and #5742.

Moved ahead of Aira

Fiadh
In 2017 they stood at #2341 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2674 and #1436.

Moved the opposite way to Aira

Abigail
Between 2005 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Aira went from #4798 to #340 while Abigail went from #20 to #171.
Aimee
Between 2005 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Aira went from #4798 to #340 while Aimee went from #49 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 2005 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Aira went from #4798 to #340 while Aisling went from #657 to #1892.
Alex
Between 2005 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Aira went from #4798 to #340 while Alex went from #251 to #2605.

Moved the same way as Aira

Ada
Between 2005 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Aira went from #4798 to #340 and Ada from #951 to #40.
Alma
Between 2005 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Aira went from #4798 to #340 and Alma from #1500 to #211.
Amelia
Between 2005 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Aira went from #4798 to #340 and Amelia from #15 to #3.
Aoife
Between 2005 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Aira went from #4798 to #340 and Aoife from #332 to #192.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2005 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #340 in England and Wales in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aira

Aira at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aira across 2 official records

Aira by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aira appears in

Popularity data

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Aira at a glance

Aira across 2 official records

Aira by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aira appears in

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Aira moved ahead of

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