Yara

Yara over time, 1880–2025

Yara: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

How common is Yara?

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

When Yaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yara was born before 2018 — so the typical Yara is around 7 today.

Is Yara 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.

Spellings of Yara

Yara is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 37.1% against Yara's 0.07%.

Where Yara is used

Across 2016–2025, Yara was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 1,408 girls, against 1 in 3,215 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in 33,333).

Yara around the world

Where Yara 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.

Notable people named Yara

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

Yara in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Yara. Linked forms have their own page here.

Yara by the numbers

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

Names similar to Yara

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

Names with a curve like Yara

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

Sibling names for Yara

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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