Entry № 300 · Finnish origin

Aira Aira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EYE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Finnish
Meaning
"Goddess of dawn"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Finnish)

A name that means "goddess of dawn".

Aira is a Finnish name — possibly related to Iris or Eira (Welsh snow). In Finnish folklore, Aira is a name with associations to dawn and dew.

Aira is widely used in Finland.

Dawn. The Finnish folk name.

The name in its native script.

Aira
Transliteration
Aira
Pronunciation
/ ˈaɪ.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aira stands.

Aira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Airas before her.

Real people
Aira Samulin
Finnish dancer.
born 1927
In fiction
Aira
Common in Finnish fiction.

Names connected to Aira.

The number behind Aira.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aira reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.