Umaira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- oo-MAY-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Umaira is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “long-lived; full of life”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Umaira mean?
Arabic: feminine of Umair, a diminutive of Umar
“long-lived; full of life”
Is Umaira a girl's or a boy's name?
Umaira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Umaira in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,409among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Umaira, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,407th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 11 girls.
2025 had more girls named Umaira than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Umaira in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Umaira in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 11 | #2,407 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 11 | #2,510 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,629 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 8 | #3,148 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
Names like Umaira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Abeeha Hafsa Khadija Amira Hiba Zainab Rahma Nusaybah Rumaysa Safiya Ruqayyah
Names related to Umaira
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, “Umaira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/umaira, updated 20 October 2026.