Khayra
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KHY-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Khayra is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “good, virtuous”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Khayra mean?
Arabic: feminine form built on khayr
“good, virtuous”
Built on khayr, the Arabic word for goodness and blessing.
Is Khayra a girl's or a boy's name?
Khayra is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khayra in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 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, 3 girls in the UK were named Khayra, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2014, with 3 girls.
In 2025, 20 girls in the UK were given Khayra or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,359, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Khaira 17
- Khayra 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Khayra in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 1 | #7,629 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
Names like Khayra
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hiba Rahma Hafsa Khadija Abeeha Ayah Zainab Huda Zaha Safaa Nusaybah
Other spellings of Khayra
Names related to Khayra
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra
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, “Khayra: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khayra, updated 20 October 2026.