Yaira is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Yara, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Yaira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,527 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,527 in 2003; #7,116 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yaira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,116 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #3,527.
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Yaira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,527 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 42 (2007).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Yaira, making it the 7,116th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,808 places from #8,924 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 12 girls named Yaira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,527, reached in 2003. The most girls given the name in a single year was 42, in 2007. For comparison, it was #11,800 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yaira in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 584 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 265 babies named Yaira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 119 US girls were named Yaira; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Yara (7,565 babies since 1880) and Yahaira (5,176 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 Yaira in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,116 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,924 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,157 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,199 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,264 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,519 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,316 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,397 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,672 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,585 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,800 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,105 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,589 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,397 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,174 | — | — |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,240 | — | — |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,669 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,507 | — | — |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,846 | — | — |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,373 | — | — |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,370 | — | — |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,527 | — | — |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,758 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,851 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,830 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #8,004 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,805 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,569 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,547 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,711 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,390 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,334 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,843 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,222 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,293 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,259 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,493 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,390 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,941 | — | — |
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).