Jaira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- JY-ra
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Jaira is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Jaira mean?
Hebrew: probably a feminine of Jair (Yair) 'he shines'
Jair is a minor biblical figure, a judge of Israel in the Book of Judges.
Is Jaira a girl's or a boy's name?
Jaira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jaira in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 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, 12 girls in the US were named Jaira, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 1999, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 1983.
Half of all the girls named Jaira in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 133 girls in the US were given Jaira or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,385, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Jaira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,314 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,140 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,523 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,952 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,523 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,551 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,938 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,902 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,559 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,522 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,084 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,119 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,006 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,766 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,074 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,116 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,552 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,645 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,755 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,386 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,315 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
Names like Jaira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Raya, Salma, Zaira, Amira, Aaliyah, Samira, Zamira, Hafsa, Hadassah, Hiba, Sasha
Other spellings of Jaira
Names related to Jaira
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
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, “Jaira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jaira, updated 20 October 2026.