Airi
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #3,974 for girls
Airi is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,974th for girls in the US (36 babies).
What does Airi mean?
Japanese
A female given name from Japanese.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Airi a girl's or a boy's name?
Airi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 36 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Airi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,974among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 36about 1 in 45,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 58% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 36 girls in the US were named Airi, making it the 3,974th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had the most girls named Airi of any year since it first appeared, in 1993.
Half of all the girls named Airi in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Airi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,974 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,386 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,123 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,169 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,311 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,040 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,398 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,308 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,027 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,729 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
Names like Airi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kyomi Miyori Yumi Rumi Kiyomi Yuna Kaori Kairi Zhuri Nami Yuri Suki
Names related to Airi
More Japanese names
Kobe Kaizen Raiden Ren Akari Kenzo Ronin Akira Emi Miya Kenji Reo Jiraiya Aizen Sora Aiko
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Airi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/airi, updated 20 October 2026.