Maira is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Maira is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Maira. In the SmartGenius ranking, Maira is #2,510 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Maira.
Maira is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Maira - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 692 in 1992. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Maira really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Maira was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
63 babies were named Maira in 2022 - that's 1 in 2,352,887 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Maira ranked 2,426 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Maira are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Maira is registered in 19 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Maira live in California, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 6,147 would turn around if you called the name Maira across California.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Maira is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Maira and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Maira, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maira
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Maira sounds like this:
