Ayra

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Ayra: Recorded every year since 2002, its highest recorded position is #134, and it stood at #266 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#134highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#2540
2003	#1996
2004	#2278
2005	#3970
2006	#1748
2007	#3667
2008	#2292
2009	#2019
2010	#1584
2011	#894
2012	#812
2013	#839
2014	#814
2015	#666
2016	#594
2017	#493
2018	#437
2019	#320
2020	#335
2021	#283
2022	#260
2023	#212
2024	#134

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 every year from 2002 to 2024.

In 2024: #134 among girls in England and Wales, #215 among girls in Scotland, #275 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2002–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2002
First recorded at #2540 among girls in England and Wales in 2002 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2002–2024
Highest recorded position: #134 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2002–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #266 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Ayra appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 2002, and has registered 1,811 births with the name.

Ayra 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.

Ayra'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	#2540 (2002)	#134 (2024)	#134 (2024)	23 of 23	1,811 (2002–2024)	373 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#876 (2014)	#266 (2025)	#266 (2025)	9 of 12	67 (2014–2025)	16 (2025)

Ayra 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 Ayra in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	67	8 of 10	8
2010s	664	10 of 10	66
2020sbusiest	1,080	5 of 10	216

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 216 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 146, from 227 to 373.

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

Ayra 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 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #134 in England and Wales in 2024.

Ayra'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#134	373	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#212	227	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#260	177	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#283	167	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#335	136	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#320	147	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#437	100	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#493	88	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#594	71	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#666	61	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#839	45	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#812	47	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#894	40	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1584	18	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1748	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#266	16	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#275	15	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#364	10	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#215	17	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.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2002 and 2025, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #134, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 373 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 22 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Ayrton · #342, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aoibh · #135, 28y
Iarla · #135, 27y
Betsy · #132, 29y
Alexa · #130, 29y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Cayden · #140, 26y
Rocco · #126, 26y
Ailo · #125, 20y
Jaxson · #117, 22y

Ayra was ranked #134 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. 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.

Ayra 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 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ayra without appearing here.

Ayra moved ahead of

Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1584 and #5707.
Francis Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1748 and #5061.
Jesse Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2019 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1584 and #4688.
Jordan Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2019 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1584 and #4012.

Moved ahead of Ayra

Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1748 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #3667 and #1573.

Moved the opposite way to Ayra

Abigail Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayra went from #2540 to #134 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayra went from #2540 to #134 while Aimee went from #65 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayra went from #2540 to #134 while Aisling went from #513 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayra went from #2540 to #134 while Alex went from #233 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Ayra

Ada Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayra went from #2540 to #134 and Ada from #2301 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayra went from #2540 to #134 and Alma from #2105 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayra went from #2540 to #134 and Amelia from #25 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ayra went from #2540 to #134 and Aria from #2540 to #35.

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 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #134 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ayra

Ayra at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ayra across 2 official records

Ayra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Ayra across 2 official records

Ayra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Ayra

Ayra and the names beside it

Ayra moved ahead of

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