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Yakira

#4,751 in 2025Girls' name

Precious

Yakira has been given to 993 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #4,751 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Yakira, 2025

1 in 114,000

Yakira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yakira: meaning, origin, and history

Precious

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yakira means

Yakira means “precious”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 993 girls were recorded with the name Yakira between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 1997; its best national rank was #2,551 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,546 in 2020 to #4,751 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,436 in 2015 to #4,751 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 Yakira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,751
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yakira 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yakira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yakiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yakira was born before 2004 — so the typical Yakira is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
993
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (319).

Is Yakira 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
−285
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,795
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,685
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.45×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.9%
Peak was 1997 (51)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,551
1997

Spellings of Yakira

Yakira is not the most common spelling — Kira is, with 18.8% against Yakira's 0.46%.

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 Yakira is used

Across 1910–2025, Yakira was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 236,763 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —

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

Yakira around the world

Where Yakira ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yakira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,751
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,795
Best rank ever
#2,551
1997
Peak year
1997
51 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
993
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Yakira

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

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Sibling names for Yakira

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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