girls:
33k births since 1948
#770 (87th percentile)
boys:
345 births since 1978
#4241 (7th percentile)
overall:
33.3k births since 1948
#1382 (82nd percentile)
The name Mayra is the #1,382 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 33,334 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 82.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #770 (86.5% percentile) for all time with 32,989 births since 1948. For boys, it ranks #4,241 (7.5% percentile) for all time with 345 births since 1978.
Mayra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for girls and 1978 for boys). Birth data for Mayra is available in 75 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023 (75 years for girls and 18 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mayra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mayra reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 78.7% percentile (ranked #174) with 814 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 814 births per million (ranked 78.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1990, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mayra ranks #833 for girls (12.1% percentile) with 68 births per million, which is 8.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mayra reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #669) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 21 births per million (ranked 5.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mayra".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Mayra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.1% confident that Mayra is pronounced as MAI-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAY-ruh, at 34.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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