Mayra

Where Mayra comes from

Mayra hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1948
    First appearance
    #4,205 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Mayra Andrade born
    Cape Verdean singer
  3. 1986
    Peak, #179
    1,501 babies named Mayra — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1991
    Mayra Aguiar born
    Brazilian judoka
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #418.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Mayra Aguiar · Brazilian judoka, born 1991
  • Mayra Andrade · Cape Verdean singer, born 1985
  • Mayra Ramírez · Colombian football player, born 1999
  • Mayra Sérbulo · Mexican actress, born 1970
  • Mayra Gómez Kemp · Cuban-born Spanish actress and television host, 1948–2024

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.