Maira

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Maira: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #358, reached in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#358highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1914
1997	#2411
1998	#2701
1999	#3225
2000	#1475
2001	#1359
2002	#1784
2003	#2191
2004	#1106
2005	#1082
2006	#1435
2007	#899
2008	#1065
2009	#647
2010	#719
2011	#610
2012	#580
2013	#699
2014	#597
2015	#564
2016	#468
2017	#514
2018	#536
2019	#601
2020	#624
2021	#517
2022	#613
2023	#414
2024	#358

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 1996 to 2024.

In 2020: #624 among girls in England and Wales, #700 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1914 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #358 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #358 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Maira appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,384 births with the name.

Maira 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.

Maira'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	#1914 (1996)	#358 (2024)	#358 (2024)	29 of 29	1,384 (1996–2024)	123 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#937 (2011)	#700 (2020)	#700 (2020)	4 of 10	13 (2011–2020)	4 (2020)

Maira 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 Maira in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	23	4 of 10	6
2000s	224	10 of 10	22
2010s	713	10 of 10	71
2020sbusiest	424	5 of 10	85

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 85 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 37, from 62 to 99.

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

Maira 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #358 in England and Wales in 2024.

Maira'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	#358	123	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#414	99	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#613	62	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#517	79	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#624	61	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#601	66	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#536	78	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#514	83	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#468	93	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#564	77	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#597	69	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#699	57	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#580	73	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#610	66	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#719	51	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#647	57	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1065	28	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#899	34	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1435	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1082	23	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1106	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1784	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1359	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1914	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #358, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 123 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 15 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.

Maimuna · #1449, 28y
Mair · #1459, 25y
Mairah · #1603, 14y
Maire · #113, 54y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Alanis · #358, 29y
Neave · #359, 29y
Riya · #359, 29y
Anneka · #356, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alanis · #358, 29y
Aqib · #358, 29y
Cortney · #358, 16y
Ella-May · #358, 28y

Maira was ranked #358 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.

Maira 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 Maira without appearing here.

Maira moved ahead of

Kristy Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2191 and #2191 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1106 and #3197.
Debra Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3225 and #2189 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1475 and #3247.
Helene Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2191 and #2191 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1106 and #2802.
Ollie Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2191 and #2191 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1106 and #2802.

Moved ahead of Maira

Ada Compare
In 2007 they stood at #899 and #919 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1065 and #699.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #610 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #580 and #284.
Aria Compare
In 2011 they stood at #610 and #615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #580 and #294.
Ida Compare
In 2012 they stood at #580 and #624 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #699 and #542.

Moved the opposite way to Maira

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maira went from #1914 to #358 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maira went from #1914 to #358 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maira went from #1914 to #358 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maira went from #1914 to #358 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Maira

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maira went from #1914 to #358 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maira went from #1914 to #358 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maira went from #1914 to #358 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maira went from #1914 to #358 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #358 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Maira

Maira at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maira across 2 official records

Maira by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Maira at a glance

Maira across 2 official records

Maira by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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