Yarah is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Yara, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Yarah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,982 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Yarah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,982 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Yarah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,982 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 27 (2025).
In 2025, 27 US girls were named Yarah, making it the 4,982nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 306 places from #5,288 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 25 girls named Yarah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,982, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 27. For comparison, it was #10,119 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yarah in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 361 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 142 babies named Yarah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 203 US girls were named Yarah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 59,528 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Yara (7,565 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 Yarah 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 | 27 | #4,982 | — | — |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,288 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,948 | — | — |
| 2022 | 27 | #5,020 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,566 | — | — |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,308 | — | — |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,977 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,397 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,756 | — | — |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,088 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,119 | — | — |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,924 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,215 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,444 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,700 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,211 | — | — |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,645 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,542 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,993 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,388 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,393 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,742 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,348 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,556 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,298 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,568 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,882 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,828 | — | — |
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).