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Yanira

#5,231 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Ianeira

Yanira has been given to 3,309 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #5,231 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 123 recorded.

Babies named Yanira, 2025

1 in 133,000

Yanira over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yanira: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ianeira

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yanira means

Yanira is a form of Ianeira.

Origin, language, and formation

Yanira is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ianeira.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Yanira is pronounced /ʝaˈniɾa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,309 girls were recorded with the name Yanira between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 123 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,346 in 1989.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,156 in 2020 to #5,231 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,437 in 2015 to #5,231 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yanira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,231
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yanira 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yanira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yaniras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yanira was born before 1994 — so the typical Yanira is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,309
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (922).

Is Yanira 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
+202
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−75
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,206
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.3%
Peak was 1993 (123)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,346
1989

Spellings of Yanira

Yanira is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 61.0% against Yanira's 0.23%.

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 Yanira is used

Across 1910–2025, Yanira was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 32,409 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Connecticut1 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. Yanira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yanira around the world

Where Yanira 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.

  • France
    2009–2024
    #7,433
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Yanira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,231
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 75
Best rank ever
#1,346
1989
Peak year
1993
123 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,309
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Yanira

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

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Names with a curve like Yanira

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

JenaeKeonaKeraChassidyArikaColbyJeseniaLashayNishaChassityGennaKayce

Sibling names for Yanira

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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