Meaning not yet researched.
Yair: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 124 in 2025. Its best rank was #706 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #706 in 2006; #1,450 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yair in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,450 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #706.
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Yair: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 124 boys in 2025. Peak: #706 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 311 (2006).
In 2025, 124 US boys were named Yair, making it the 1,450th most common boys’ name of the year, down 46 places from #1,404 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 134 boys named Yair in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #706, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 311. For comparison, it was #1,161 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yair in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 5,042 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,133 babies named Yair.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,436 US boys were named Yair; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 184. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,775 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yair ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #804 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Yahir (12,481 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Yair 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 6 | #804 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #866 | #741 |
| California | 20 | #1,080 | #806 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,130 | #1,033 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,176 | #773 |
| New York | 9 | #1,290 | #891 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,346 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,464 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,469 | #1,524 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 124 | #1,450 |
| 2024 | — | — | 134 | #1,404 |
| 2023 | — | — | 184 | #1,143 |
| 2022 | — | — | 135 | #1,386 |
| 2021 | — | — | 116 | #1,528 |
| 2020 | — | — | 107 | #1,555 |
| 2019 | — | — | 161 | #1,192 |
| 2018 | — | — | 173 | #1,121 |
| 2017 | — | — | 150 | #1,230 |
| 2016 | — | — | 152 | #1,233 |
| 2015 | — | — | 161 | #1,161 |
| 2014 | — | — | 174 | #1,100 |
| 2013 | — | — | 207 | #971 |
| 2012 | — | — | 163 | #1,129 |
| 2011 | — | — | 194 | #1,004 |
| 2010 | — | — | 203 | #975 |
| 2009 | — | — | 259 | #837 |
| 2008 | — | — | 262 | #835 |
| 2007 | — | — | 295 | #753 |
| 2006 | — | — | 311 | #706 |
| 2005 | — | — | 262 | #759 |
| 2004 | — | — | 252 | #742 |
| 2003 | — | — | 259 | #717 |
| 2002 | — | — | 110 | #1,243 |
| 2001 | — | — | 74 | #1,615 |
| 2000 | — | — | 49 | #2,085 |
| 1999 | — | — | 34 | #2,604 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,446 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #2,021 |
| 1996 | — | — | 24 | #3,104 |
| 1995 | — | — | 26 | #2,844 |
| 1994 | — | — | 23 | #3,106 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,242 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,912 |
| 1991 | — | — | 22 | #2,987 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,163 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #4,016 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,737 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,953 |
| 1986 | — | — | 11 | #4,126 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,559 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,693 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,493 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,277 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,486 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #7,057 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,548 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,575 |
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).