Yajayra
Yajayra was last recorded in 2013, when 6 babies were given it; 304 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yajayra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yajayra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,434, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 1996, the peak
Yajayra peaked in 1996, when 41 girls were given it, #2,956 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #16,434 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,660 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,701 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,529 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,787 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,218 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,518 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,812 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,976 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,214 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 14 | #7,705 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,140 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,865 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,703 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,153 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,956 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,495 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,653 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,479 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,284 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,412 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,385 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,824 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,837 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,466 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,036 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,998 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yajayra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yajayra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yajayra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yajayra, and how old are they?
An estimated 299 Americans named Yajayra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 22 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 290 people named Yajayra (290 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 300 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Yajayra?
Yajayra is a less common spelling of Yajaira: SSA has recorded 304 Yajayra and 5,679 Yajaira since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,178 babies since 1880, Yajayra is the second most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 32 babies recorded by SSA was a Yajayra (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Yajayra
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 Yajayra and names like it
- Compare Yajayra and YajairaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sYajayra peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yajayra since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Yajayra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yajayra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.