Yahaira
Yahaira was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,980 among girls’ names; 5,176 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,090 Americans named Yahaira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yahaira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yahaira?
#4,980 among girls’ names, 2025
Yahaira fell from #3,209 in 2015 to #4,980 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.1 to 16.8 per million.
311 babies in 2005, the peak
Yahaira peaked in 2005, when 311 girls were given it, #825 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,980 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,885 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,558 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,289 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,817 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,497 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,550 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,903 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,462 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,738 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,209 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,711 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 91 | #2,106 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,758 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 188 | #1,272 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 138 | #1,589 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 165 | #1,425 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 225 | #1,144 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 238 | #1,094 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 247 | #1,041 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 311 | #825 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 222 | #1,048 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 293 | #834 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 176 | #1,172 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 183 | #1,145 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 132 | #1,409 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 129 | #1,375 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,469 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 120 | #1,403 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 134 | #1,293 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 118 | #1,397 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,779 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,876 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,052 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,951 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,856 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,569 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,181 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,126 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,864 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,782 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,614 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,814 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 72 | #1,620 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,789 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,832 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,644 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,961 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,905 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,358 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,967 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,036 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,564 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yahaira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yahaira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yahaira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yahaira, and how old are they?
5,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,176 Americans ever recorded as Yahaira. The median Yahaira alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 6,386 people named Yahaira (6,367 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,899 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 277 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 669 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Yahaira born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,513 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,777 | 1.9× |
Where Yahaira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yahaira is most over-represented in California: since 1973 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yahaira with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,616 babies since 1880, Yahaira is the most given (78% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 106 babies (25%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yahaira
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Yahaira and names like it
- Compare Yahaira and YairaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYahaira peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yahaira since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Yahaira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yahaira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.