Girls' name · since 2017
Iyra
90 babies named Iyra in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #28,294 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,808 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 90
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
90 babies have been named Iyra since 2017, making it today's #8808 girls' name.
Social Security Administration records show Iyra recorded 90 times among girls since 2017, holding rank #8808 nationally today, ahead of 49% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #28,294 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,808 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 90 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Iyra ranks #28,294 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,808 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 90 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #28,294 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,808 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 90
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Iyra's 90 recorded births place it above 60.77% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Iyra compares
90 23rd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Iyra's all-time total is 76% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Iyra | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 90 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 16 | 21 | 19,840 |
Iyra's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Iyra's SSA record in two at 2022 and the more recent half accounts for 58% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 42%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2017, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2021 peak of 16, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Iyra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Iyra by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (78 births, 87% of the file).
2020s was Iyra's strongest decade.
78 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 87% of all-time use.
Iyra births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 12
2010s
12 births
- 2020s
2020s
78 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 78 births (87% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Iyra draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.