Yahira — #12399 US girls' name
485 babies named Yahira in U.S. Social Security records since 1973, with the highest year being 2007. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 30% of names given to girls today.
49% of everyone ever named Yahira was born in this single decade.
38 babies were named Yahira in 2007 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Yahira
The Social Security Administration has registered 485 babies named Yahira between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yahira currently holds the #12399 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 38 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Yahira performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 240 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Yahira shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 46 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Yahira in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Yahira 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 485 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.
Yahira at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Yahira popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1973
- Peak year (2007)
- 38
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
Currently ranks #12399 among girls.
485 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2007 with 38 births in a single year.
Yahira by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 240 births that decade — 49% of Yahira's all-time total
Yahira decade highlights
- Peak decade 240 births
- Runner-up 104 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Yahira's strongest decade
240 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
Yahira by state
Where Yahira concentrates geographically — total births since 1973
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 46 | 9.5% |
| #2 | New York | | 42 | 8.7% |
| #3 | Texas | | 13 | 2.7% |
46 of 485 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 9.5% of nationwide
- New York 8.7% of nationwide
- Texas 2.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 9.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1973–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.