Yajaira
Yajaira was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,456 among girls’ names; 5,679 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,570 Americans named Yajaira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yajaira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yajaira mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Yajaira is “a female given name”
/ʝaˈxaiɾa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yajaira?
#4,456 among girls’ names, 2025
Yajaira rose from #4,580 in 2015 to #4,456 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 17.4 to 19.9 per million.
231 babies in 2005, the peak
Yajaira peaked in 2005, when 231 girls were given it, #1,040 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,456 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,465 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,375 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 27 | #5,015 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,876 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,539 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,972 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,763 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,474 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,409 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,580 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,262 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,900 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,653 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 76 | #2,432 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,218 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 114 | #1,865 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 135 | #1,663 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 170 | #1,408 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 178 | #1,322 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 231 | #1,040 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 223 | #1,042 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 182 | #1,185 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 158 | #1,256 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 226 | #964 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 187 | #1,101 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 202 | #1,015 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 212 | #966 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 191 | #1,011 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 214 | #918 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 190 | #987 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 178 | #1,035 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 164 | #1,101 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 129 | #1,308 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 169 | #1,073 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 124 | #1,313 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 188 | #943 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 105 | #1,365 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,568 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 94 | #1,379 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 130 | #1,117 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 98 | #1,283 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,372 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 115 | #1,192 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 89 | #1,395 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 94 | #1,350 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 106 | #1,231 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 86 | #1,373 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,066 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,928 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,879 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,682 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,665 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yajaira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yajaira has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Yajaira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yajaira, and how old are they?
5,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,679 Americans ever recorded as Yajaira. The median Yajaira alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 7,143 people named Yajaira (7,118 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,420 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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 | 417 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 435 |
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 Yajaira born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,753 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,779 | 2.0× |
Where Yajaira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yajaira is most over-represented in California: since 1973 it was given 2.3 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 Yajaira 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 6,178 babies since 1880, Yajaira is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 32 babies (100%), 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 Yajaira
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 Yajaira and names like it
- Compare Yajaira and YajayraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYajaira peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yajaira since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Yajaira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Yajaira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yajaira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.