Yanira
Yanira was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,231 among girls’ names; 3,309 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,230 Americans named Yanira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 22 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yanira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yanira mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Yanira is “a female given name”
/ʝaˈniɾa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yanira?
#5,231 among girls’ names, 2025
Yanira rose from #6,437 in 2015 to #5,231 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.2 to 15.6 per million.
123 babies in 1993, the peak
Yanira peaked in 1993, when 123 girls were given it, #1,349 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,231 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,433 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,988 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,104 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,561 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,156 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,901 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,453 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,791 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,628 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,437 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,450 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,913 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,580 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,461 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,406 | 27.0 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,997 | 31.6 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,829 | 33.8 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,482 | 39.5 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,260 | 26.8 |
| 2005 | 72 | #2,452 | 39.0 |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,906 | 53.9 |
| 2003 | 88 | #2,043 | 48.2 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,096 | 45.6 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,325 | 38.3 |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,253 | 38.5 |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,699 | 29.3 |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,100 | 39.6 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,730 | 51.7 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,038 | 39.4 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,664 | 50.6 |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,602 | 53.2 |
| 1993 | 123 | #1,349 | 68.0 |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,482 | 58.0 |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,434 | 59.7 |
| 1990 | 115 | #1,380 | 60.6 |
| 1989 | 115 | #1,346 | 62.4 |
| 1988 | 94 | #1,463 | 52.8 |
| 1987 | 84 | #1,528 | 48.3 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,768 | 38.5 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,757 | 37.8 |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,615 | 41.0 |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,510 | 45.5 |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,473 | 48.4 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,567 | 45.6 |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,501 | 48.2 |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,769 | 38.6 |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,652 | 42.4 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,735 | 39.1 |
| 1976 | 53 | #1,793 | 36.2 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,513 | 21.9 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,312 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,911 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,088 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,307 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,464 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,635 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #6,033 | 4.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,799 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yanira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yanira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yanira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yanira, and how old are they?
3,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,309 Americans ever recorded as Yanira. The median Yanira alive today is 32 years old; half are between 22 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 7,274 people named Yanira (7,261 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,098 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 416 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 359 |
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 Yanira born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #3,078 | 2.2× |
Where Yanira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yanira is most over-represented in California: since 1964 it was given 2.2 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 Yanira 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,372 babies since 1880, Yanira is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 25 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 Yanira
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 Yanira and names like it
- Compare Yanira and YanaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sYanira peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yanira since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Yanira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Yanira.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Yanira alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with YMost given first.