Alaira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LAIR-a
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #812 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,115 for girls
- Style
- New arrival
Alaira is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 812th for girls in the UK (48 babies) and 6,115th for girls in the US (19 babies).
Where does Alaira come from?
Modern: modern name; source uncertain
Is Alaira a girl's or a boy's name?
Alaira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 48 girls in the UK and 19 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alaira in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 812th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 48 about 1 in 5,800 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 48 girls in the UK were named Alaira, making it the 812th most popular name for girls.
Half of all the girls named Alaira in the UK since 1996 were born in 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 55 girls in the UK were given Alaira or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #676, up from #812 for this spelling alone.
- Alaira 48
- Alairah 7
Among girls in 2025, it was 763rd in England and Wales.
Alaira in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #812 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
How popular is Alaira in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,115th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 85,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the US were named Alaira, making it the 6,115th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. It first appears in the records in 2000.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Alaira of any year since it first appeared, in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Alaira in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Alaira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,115 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
Names like Alaira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Amira, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Ayra, Hiba, Rahma, Halima, Ayah, Aiza, Rumaysa
Other spellings of Alaira
Alairah
Names related to Alaira
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Alaira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alaira, updated 20 October 2026.