Maira

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maira is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Ecuador it is the 46th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ) Mayra: weibl. Vom., Abwand­ lung von.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 295◐
  • ECEcuador1 in 315
  • FIFinland1 in 544

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈239K ●

across 10 countries

#338 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
379 ●

2.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 295 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

MeeraLatin · Hindi●1.8M records
МайраCyrillic · Russian●62K records
מירהHebrew · Hebrew●45K records
미라Hangul · Korean●38K records
ᲛილაGeorgian · Georgian●927 records
ՄիլաArmenian · Armenian●179 records
ไมลาThai · Thai●136 records
ΜιραGreek · Greek●57 records

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mayra in US United States, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 8 more, Mira in HR Croatia, TR Türkiye, DE Germany and 5 more, Mila in FR France, PH Philippines and Мира in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

) Mayra: weibl. Vom., Abwand­ lung von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Maira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#1162,761,263990K rec.—1.3KMeera189
AR Argentina#271494,882264K rec.—23KMayra112
MX Mexico#133399,428289K rec.—3.4KMayra202
VE Venezuela#103234,47271K rec.——Mayra51
PE Peru#324102,30278K rec.——Mayra81
CO Colombia#12586,09127K rec.—71Mayra131
US United States#65965,535458K rec.1 in 5.1K66KMayra379
TR Türkiye—54,39853K rec.—2.2KMira32
EC Ecuador#4653,593△2.4K rec.1 in 31577KMayra68
BR Brazil#32952,12087K rec.1 in 4.1K56KMaira167
RU Russia#49351,55027K rec.—#239Мира132
IL Israel#27441,49643K rec.—99מירה47

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese776K57%
  • Spanish426K31%
  • English111K8%
  • 7.9K1%
  • French4.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese775,59557%
Spanish426,36231%
English111,4038%
7,8751%
French4,7101%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Maira is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name8.8K records spelled Maira7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Kazakhstan

    Also written Maíra, Mairá, Máira, Maìra, Maĭra

  • French given name7.7K records spelled Maira8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Mayotte

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Maïra, Maíra, Maîra, Máira, Mäirä

  • Thai given name1.8K records spelled Maira11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Myra, ไมรา, ไมร่า, Maíra, ไม่ระ

  • Indonesian given name1.5K records spelled Maira4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Maíra, Máira

  • Latvian given name1.3K records spelled Maira5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United States, Kazakhstan, Philippines

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Maïra, Maíra

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name954 records spelled Maira8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Spain

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Maíra

  • Italian given name850 records spelled Maira5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Maíra, Màira, Maïra, Máira

  • Finnish given name744 records spelled Maira4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Kazakhstan, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Maíra, Mairá

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

0200400600192019401960198020002020423 · 1980

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Maira in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1909–2024
Yearrecords
19091
19181
19241
19251
19261
19292
19321
19371
19391
19421
19441
19471
19502
19523
19533
19564
19571
195835
195937
196020
196126
196226
196322
196432
196527
196647
196750
196854
196957
197066
197191
197284
197394
197485
197578
1976124
1977142
1978154
1979266
1980423
1981318
1982293
1983247
1984320
1985334
1986277
1987260
1988230
1989218
1990194
1991170
1992166
1993126
1994140
1995130
199656
199762
199863
199962
200048
200134
200230
200333
200431
200524
200628
200727
200828
200924
201022
201116
201221
201315
201416
201515
20169
201711
20188
20197
20207
20212
20223
20233
20243

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 84 years between 1909–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Maira Kalman, b. 1949Maira Mora, b. 1950Maira Asare, b. 1960Maira Kreislere, b. 1970Maíra Góes, b. 1979Maira Bodenhöfer, b. 1986Maira Alexandra Rodríguez, b. 1991Maira Sakuragi, b. 1995Maïra Schmitt, b. 2000

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●

Attested in 84 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Maira
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—56K#725
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202252K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—52K#547
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202010K#2,470
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20246.2K#303
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.5K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.2K#2,567
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1K#1,402
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—771—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—769#492
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—466#2,644
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—267#547

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 2026-09-12 data build · 673 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Maira?
We estimate roughly 239 thousand people bear Maira (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Maira have the most bearers?
Maira is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled meera.
Where is Maira most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maira is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 295 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Maira compared with other names?
In India, Maira is the 116th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Maira mean?
Recorded meaning: ) Mayra: weibl. Vom., Abwand­ lung von
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 116th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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