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Mayra vs Mayumi

American parents have registered 33,561 Mayras since 1880, against 697 Mayumis. Mayra is still ahead, with 86 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mayra against Mayumi, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mayra Mayumi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Mayra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1948 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Mayra had 86 and Mayumi had 42.

Side by side

  Mayra Mayumi
Total US births 33,561697
Most in one year 1,54842
Babies in 2025 8642
Estimated living today 33,000690
Median age today 3415
Peak year 19872025
Best rank 182nd girls3,577th girls
Rank in 2025 2,153rd3,577th
First recorded 19481963
Girls / boys 33,217 / 344697 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mayras alive today are over 34; half the Mayumis are over 15. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Mayra Mayumi
France 1,19545
England and Wales 25540
Switzerland 25325

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mayra and Mayumi.