Entry № 7679 · Other origin

Wayra Wayra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WAI-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Wind (Quechua-Aymara Andean foundational)"
Syllables
2
Rank · US 2025
№ 0
First recorded
Ancient (Quechua-Aymara)

A name that means "wind (quechua-aymara andean foundational)".

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.

Wind (Quechua-Aymara). Foundational Andean Quechua-Aymara feminine + foundational Apus mountain spirits + Andean Altiplano + foundational Pachamama Mother Earth philosophical worldview + foundational Andean elemental cosmological tradition + spanning Peru + Bolivia + Ecuador + Argentina + Chile.

The name in its native script.

Wayra
Transliteration
Wayra
Pronunciation
/ ˈwaɪ.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wayra stands.

Current rank · 2025
№ 0 in the U.S.
All-time peak
№ 0 in 0
Babies named Wayra · last year
88 in the U.S.
First entered SSA top-1000
0
Rank, 1995–2025 Lower = more popular
№25 №75 №150 №250 1995 2005 2015 2020 2025 PEAK · — NOW · —

Wayras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wayra
Quechua-Aymara wind.

Names connected to Wayra.

The number behind Wayra.

6

The Nurturer

Wayra reduces to six.

Why families chose this name.

"Andean wind. Five letters. Wayra."
Sisa · Mother of one · La Paz