Eira
Eira is a girl name of Welsh origin, meaning Snow.
What Eira means
Snow.
Eira is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Eira comes from
Welsh names come from one of the oldest continuously spoken languages in Europe, and many are rooted in Celtic myth or in the landscape itself.
Eira is recorded as Welsh in origin. Browse other Welsh names.
How popular is Eira?
Eira sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Eira
We group Eira under the natural world and water and the sea — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Eira
These share Eira's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Brooke — A small stream.
- Clodagh — Named for an Irish river.
- Marlowe — From the hill by the lake.
- Oaklynn — From the oak meadow pool.
- Rocio — Dew; Our Lady of the Dew.
- Beckett — Dweller by the brook.
- Douglas — From the dark river.
- Lachlan — From the land of lakes.
- Lake — A still body of water.
- Reed — Red-haired; the riverside reed.
- River — A flowing body of water.
- Wells — From the springs.