Yajaira

#4,456 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Yajaira has been given to 5,679 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #4,456 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 231 recorded.

Babies named Yajaira, 2025

1 in 104,000

Yajaira over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yajaira: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yajaira means

Yajaira is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Yajaira is used in Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Yajaira is pronounced /ʝaˈxaiɾa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,674 girls were recorded with the name Yajaira between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 231 in 2005; its best national rank was #918 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,539 in 2020 to #4,456 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,580 in 2015 to #4,456 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Yajaira between 1994 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1994; its best national rank was #10,201 in 1994.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yajaira?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 104,000; 32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 50,200; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #4,456; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 71,810 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Yajaira 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yajaira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yajairas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yajaira was born before 1998 — so the typical Yajaira is around 27 today.

Median birth year: 1998; About 27 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 40.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 5,674; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (1,804).

Is Yajaira 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: +9; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +83; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +124; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.03×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 13.9%; Peak was 2005 (231)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #918; 1996

Spellings of Yajaira

Yajaira is not the most common spelling — Yadira is, with 35.3% against Yajaira's 15.6%.

Yadira35.3%12,815
Yajaira15.6%5,674
Yahaira14.3%5,176
Yanira9.1%3,309
Samaira4.6%1,658
Jahaira4.2%1,515
Yadhira3.7%1,334
Amaira2.9%1,035

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 Yajaira is used

Across 1910–2025, Yajaira was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 25,012 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 9,091
2Arizona1 in 10,000
3Texas1 in 11,111
4Illinois1 in 25,000
5New York1 in 25,000
6New Jersey1 in 33,333
7Colorado1 in 50,000
8Florida1 in 50,000

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. Yajaira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Yajaira

People whose public names include Yajaira, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

Yajaira VeraPhysician
b. 1963

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Yajaira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #4,456
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 83
Best rank ever: #918; 1996
Peak year: 2005; 231 that year
First recorded: 1973
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 5,674
Count in 2025: 32

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,201; 1994
Peak year: 1994; 5 that year
First recorded: 1994
Last recorded: 1994
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Yajaira

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

Yahaira Yajahira Shakira Saphira Elmira Samira Samaira Yanira Shamira Jahaira Claira Shira Yadira Indira Maira Zaira Deyanira Akira Moira Almira Saira Zamira Kaira Jakira

Names with a curve like Yajaira

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

Reanna Vanesa Tristan Franchesca Shakira Jessenia Gabriel Keyana Monet Keyonna Halley Autum

Sibling names for Yajaira

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

For a sister

Jamya Abigayle Dayanara Tayla Jasmyn Nyasia Elyssa Jadyn

For a brother

Nathen Kadin Jamarcus Kenyon Nevin Gavyn Deshaun Brandt

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