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Yahaira

#4,980 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Yahaira has been given to 5,176 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #4,980 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 311 recorded.

Babies named Yahaira, 2025

1 in 123,000

Yahaira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yahaira: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yahaira means

Yahaira is a given name.

The naming story behind Yahaira

Wikidata records Yahaira as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q124323111, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,176 girls were recorded with the name Yahaira between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 311 in 2005; its best national rank was #825 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,497 in 2020 to #4,980 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,209 in 2015 to #4,980 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Yahaira?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,980
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yahaira sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yahaira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yahairas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yahaira was born before 2003 — so the typical Yahaira is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,176
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Choose a decade

2000s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (2,192).

Is Yahaira rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−95
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,483
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,771
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.52×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.7%
Peak was 2005 (311)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#825
2005

Spellings of Yahaira

Yahaira is not the most common spelling — Yadira is, with 25.5% against Yahaira's 10.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Yahaira is used

Across 1910–2025, Yahaira was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 26,519 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 11,111
  2. 2Arizona1 in 12,500
  3. 3Nevada1 in 14,286
  4. 4Texas1 in 14,286
  5. 5Illinois1 in 25,000
  6. 6New York1 in 25,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 33,333
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yahaira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yahaira by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,980
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,483
Best rank ever
#825
2005
Peak year
2005
311 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,176
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Yahaira

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Yahaira

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Yahaira, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Yahaira

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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