Likely inspired by sky, with a sleek modern ending and possible echo of Old Norse sky-related forms.
Skyra is a modern invented name that draws its obvious primary root from the English word sky — itself derived from the Old Norse ský, meaning "cloud" — filtered through the contemporary fashion for names that evoke the aerial, the open, and the infinite. The sky has been a site of spiritual projection across virtually every human culture: heavens inhabited by gods, the vault of divine oversight, the medium of birds and wind and weather. Sky and its derivatives — Skye, Skyler, Skylar, and now Skyra — have all benefited from this expansive cultural resonance, names that seem to promise their bearers something boundless.
Skyra also resonates with Skyros (or Scyros), the Greek Aegean island of considerable mythological significance. It was to Skyros that the hero Achilles was hidden as a boy, disguised in women's clothing by his mother Thetis in an attempt to prevent his participation in the Trojan War; it was also on Skyros that Theseus died in exile. The island's name means something close to "rocky" in Greek.
Whether or not that etymology informs Skyra's contemporary appeal, the island's mythological associations lend the name an inadvertent classical depth. In modern usage, Skyra feels entirely at home in the company of names like Aurora, Lyra, Indira, and Zara — names that combine celestial imagery with a feminine -a ending and a kind of breezy, confident musicality.