Yajahira — girls' name
195 babies named Yajahira in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
52% of everyone ever named Yajahira was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Yajahira in 2004 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Yajahira
The Social Security Administration has registered 195 babies named Yajahira between 1978 and 2014, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yajahira currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Yajahira performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 102 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Yajahira shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yajahira in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Yajahira 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 195 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.
Yajahira at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Yajahira popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1978
- Peak year (2004)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
195 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2004 with 16 births in a single year.
Yajahira by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 102 births that decade — 52% of Yajahira's all-time total
Yajahira decade highlights
- Peak decade 102 births
- Runner-up 59 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Yajahira's strongest decade
102 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 52% of all-time use.
Yajahira by state
Where Yajahira concentrates geographically — total births since 1978
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 6 | 3.1% |
6 of 195 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 3.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.1% 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, 1978–2014 (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.