Meaning not yet researched.
Yahir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 305 in 2025. Its best rank was #258 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #258 in 2003; #816 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yahir in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#816 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #258.
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Yahir: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 305 boys in 2025. Peak: #258 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 1,274 (2003).
In 2025, 305 US boys were named Yahir, making it the 816th most common boys’ name of the year, down 51 places from #765 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 332 boys named Yahir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #258, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,274. For comparison, it was #664 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yahir in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 6 babies. In all, 12,481 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,337 babies named Yahir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,885 US boys were named Yahir; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 332. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,600 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yahir ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #439 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Yair (5,042 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yaire, Yar and Yhair are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yaire (506), Yar (80), Yhair (50), Yahire (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Yahir in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 14 | #439 | #416 |
| California | 62 | #504 | #446 |
| Arizona | 12 | #593 | #724 |
| Texas | 53 | #594 | #405 |
| Nevada | 5 | #599 | #576 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #632 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #704 | #493 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #716 | #588 |
| Illinois | 12 | #748 | #560 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #785 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #806 | #809 |
| Virginia | 8 | #873 | #879 |
| New York | 16 | #883 | #765 |
| Washington | 7 | #895 | #566 |
| Maryland | 5 | #915 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #930 | #903 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,089 | #735 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,123 | #867 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,187 | #1,044 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,428 | #1,031 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 305 | #816 |
| 2024 | — | — | 332 | #765 |
| 2023 | — | — | 291 | #840 |
| 2022 | — | — | 291 | #840 |
| 2021 | — | — | 253 | #909 |
| 2020 | — | — | 254 | #894 |
| 2019 | — | — | 286 | #805 |
| 2018 | — | — | 277 | #813 |
| 2017 | — | — | 269 | #828 |
| 2016 | — | — | 327 | #746 |
| 2015 | — | — | 389 | #664 |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,097 | 490 | #569 |
| 2013 | — | — | 572 | #482 |
| 2012 | — | — | 508 | #519 |
| 2011 | — | — | 635 | #430 |
| 2010 | — | — | 617 | #439 |
| 2009 | — | — | 686 | #421 |
| 2008 | — | — | 735 | #401 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,403 | 738 | #401 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,941 | 776 | #386 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,377 | 764 | #379 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,732 | 947 | #323 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,482 | 1,274 | #258 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,343 | 334 | #604 |
| 2001 | — | — | 20 | #4,114 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,382 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,309 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,824 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #7,118 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,776 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,410 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).