Barira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ba-REE-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Barira is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Barira mean?
Arabic: spelling of Barirah; classical Arabic name
Barira was a freed slave in the household of Aisha, the Prophet's wife; hadith record her choice to leave her husband.
Meaning borrowed from Barirah.
Is Barira a girl's or a boy's name?
Barira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Barira in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,776among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Barira, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th.
2025 had the most girls named Barira of any year since it first appeared, in 2008.
In 2025, 33 girls in the UK were given Barira or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #977, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Barira in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
Names like Barira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Abeeha Khadija Amira Hiba Hafsa Nusaybah Rahma Rumaysa Huda Mahira Ayah
Other spellings of Barira
Names related to Barira
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Barira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/barira, updated 20 October 2026.