Meaning not yet researched.
Yara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 585 in 2025. Its best rank was #507 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99% of babies named Yara in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#507 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Yara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 585 girls in 2025. Peak: #507 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 585 (2025).
In 2025, 585 US girls were named Yara, making it the 507th most common girls’ name of the year, up 75 places from #582 in 2024. That is 66 more than the 519 girls named Yara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #507, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 585. For comparison, it was #1,237 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yara in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 6 babies. In all, 7,565 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,037 babies named Yara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,257 US girls were named Yara; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 585. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,747 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yara ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #218 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Yaira, Yahira and Yarah 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yaira (584), Yahira (486), Yarah (361), Yaara (79), Yahra (31), Yayra (21), Yahara (19), Yarra (11).
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 Yara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 42 | #218 | #898 |
| Maryland | 20 | #268 | #1,043 |
| Virginia | 31 | #271 | #1,214 |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #372 | #1,116 |
| California | 88 | #377 | #1,110 |
| Georgia | 30 | #379 | — |
| New York | 41 | #427 | #883 |
| Washington | 16 | #450 | — |
| North Carolina | 23 | #488 | — |
| Florida | 37 | #501 | #941 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #561 | #827 |
| Illinois | 18 | #574 | #980 |
| Ohio | 18 | #591 | #1,273 |
| Texas | 54 | #597 | #1,011 |
| Nevada | 5 | #599 | — |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #609 | #971 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #621 | — |
| New Jersey | 12 | #665 | #1,175 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #675 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #685 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #705 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #727 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #816 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #861 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,029 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,033 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,046 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 585 | #507 | 7 | #10,639 |
| 2024 | 519 | #582 | 6 | #12,294 |
| 2023 | 488 | #614 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 2022 | 526 | #571 | 6 | #12,271 |
| 2021 | 454 | #657 | — | — |
| 2020 | 441 | #654 | — | — |
| 2019 | 365 | #766 | — | — |
| 2018 | 437 | #673 | 7 | #10,716 |
| 2017 | 264 | #987 | — | — |
| 2016 | 178 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 2015 | 199 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 2014 | 154 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 2013 | 207 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 2012 | 208 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 2011 | 211 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 2010 | 188 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2009 | 185 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 2008 | 166 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 2007 | 256 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,235 | — | — |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,686 | — | — |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,875 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,418 | — | — |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,340 | — | — |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,782 | — | — |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,493 | — | — |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,981 | — | — |
| 1986 | 21 | #4,026 | — | — |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,316 | — | — |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,339 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,677 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,528 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,611 | — | — |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,138 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,770 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,865 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,952 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,311 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,467 | — | — |
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).