Yahayra — girls' name

What the Data Says About Yahayra

The Social Security Administration has registered 204 babies named Yahayra between 1982 and 2015, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yahayra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 17 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yahayra performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 116 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Yahayra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Yahayra in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yahayra in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 204 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.