Yahir
Yahir was given to 305 boys in 2025, #816 among boys’ names; 12,481 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,300 Americans named Yahir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yahir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yahir?
#816 among boys’ names, 2025
Yahir fell from #664 in 2015 to #816 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.20 to 0.18 per 1,000.
1,287 babies in 2003, the peak
Yahir peaked in 2003, when 1,287 babies were given it (1,274 boys, #258 among boys’ names). The 305 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 305 | #816 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 332 | #765 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 291 | #840 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 291 | #840 | 0.17 |
| 2021 | 253 | #909 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 254 | #894 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 286 | #805 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 277 | #813 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 269 | #828 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 327 | #746 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 389 | #664 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 490 | #569 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 572 | #482 | 0.30 |
| 2012 | 508 | #519 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | 635 | #430 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 617 | #439 | 0.32 |
| 2009 | 686 | #421 | 0.35 |
| 2008 | 735 | #401 | 0.36 |
| 2007 | 738 | #401 | 0.36 |
| 2006 | 776 | #386 | 0.38 |
| 2005 | 764 | #379 | 0.38 |
| 2004 | 947 | #323 | 0.48 |
| 2003 | 1,274 | #258 | 0.64 |
| 2002 | 334 | #604 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,108 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,375 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,303 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,817 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,769 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,402 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yahir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yahir has been given almost only to boys: 50 girls in 31 years of records.
Girls and boys named Yahir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yahir, and how old are they?
12,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,481 Americans ever recorded as Yahir. The median Yahir alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 8,608 people named Yahir (72 women and girls, 8,536 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,720 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 20 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,310 |
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 Yahir born?
The states with the most babies named Yahir are California, Texas and New York, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 62 | #504 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 53 | #594 | 1.8× |
| New York | 16 | #883 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 14 | #439 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #716 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 12 | #748 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,123 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 12 | #593 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,089 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 8 | #873 | 0.4× |
Where Yahir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yahir is most over-represented in California: since 1992 it was given 1.9 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 boys’ 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 Yahir 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 17,573 babies since 1880, Yahir is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 305 of their 429 babies (71%), again the most given.
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 Yahir
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 Yahir and names like it
- Compare Yahir and YairBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYahir peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yahir since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Yahir.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yahir alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.