Wayra is from the Quechua / Aymara wayra (also Spanish huayra) — wind, breeze. A modern American baby name in the broader Andean Indigenous heritage aesthetic. Wayra is one of the foundational Quechua-Aymara feminine + unisex names — central to traditional Inca + Andean Indigenous heritage. The foundational Quechua wayra is central to foundational Andean elemental + cosmological tradition (the foundational Apus mountain spirits send foundational wayra across the Andean Altiplano) + foundational Andean philosophical worldview Pachamama (Mother Earth). Foundational subject of foundational Latin American magical realism literature including foundational Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Notable bearer: Wayra Coca — foundational Bolivian foundational Quechua-Aymara cultural figure. Foundational Andean unisex name spanning Peru + Bolivia + Ecuador + Argentina + Chile.
Featured throughout Andean heritage.
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Wayra reduces to six.