Meaning not yet researched.
Yanira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,349 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,349 in 1989; #5,232 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yanira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,232 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #1,349.
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Yanira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,349 in 1989 · most girls in one year: 123 (1993).
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Yanira, making it the 5,232nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 204 places from #5,436 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 24 girls named Yanira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,349, reached in 1989. The most girls given the name in a single year was 123, in 1993. For comparison, it was #6,439 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yanira in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 3,309 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 922 babies named Yanira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 269 US girls were named Yanira; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Yanara, Yanaira and Yaneira 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yanara (63), Yanaira (42), Yaneira (33), Yannira (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 Yanira 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 | 25 | #5,232 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,436 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,991 | — | — |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,106 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,565 | — | — |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,159 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,902 | — | — |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,454 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,795 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,439 | — | — |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,452 | — | — |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,915 | — | — |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,581 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,462 | — | — |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,407 | — | — |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,829 | — | — |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,261 | — | — |
| 2005 | 72 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 2003 | 88 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1993 | 123 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1990 | 115 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1989 | 115 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 1988 | 94 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1987 | 84 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1976 | 53 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,312 | — | — |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,088 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,309 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,466 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,636 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #6,034 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,800 | — | — |
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).