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Yakira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,554 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,554 in 1997; #4,752 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yakira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,752 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #2,554.
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Yakira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,554 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 51 (1997).
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Yakira, making it the 4,752nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 284 places from #4,468 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 32 girls named Yakira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,554, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 51. For comparison, it was #6,438 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yakira in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 9 babies. In all, 993 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 319 babies named Yakira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 202 US girls were named Yakira; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,423 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,752 | — | — |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,468 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,159 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,976 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,951 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,551 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,323 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,774 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,084 | — | — |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,218 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,438 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,434 | — | — |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,451 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,860 | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,928 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,102 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,303 | — | — |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,545 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,941 | — | — |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,568 | — | — |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,255 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,204 | — | — |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,304 | — | — |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,100 | — | — |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,781 | — | — |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,351 | — | — |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,554 | — | — |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,514 | — | — |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,670 | — | — |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,502 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,930 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,392 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,335 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,370 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,395 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,401 | — | — |
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).