Yara
Yara was given to 585 girls in 2025, #507 among girls’ names; 7,565 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,490 Americans named Yara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yara mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yara is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yara?
#507 among girls’ names, 2025
Yara rose from #1,237 in 2015 to #507 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.11 to 0.36 per 1,000.
592 babies in 2025, the peak
Yara peaked in 2025, when 592 babies were given it (585 girls, #507 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 519 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 585 | #507 | 0.36 |
| 2024 | 519 | #582 | 0.32 |
| 2023 | 488 | #614 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 526 | #571 | 0.32 |
| 2021 | 454 | #657 | 0.28 |
| 2020 | 441 | #654 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 365 | #766 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 437 | #673 | 0.26 |
| 2017 | 264 | #987 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 178 | #1,337 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 199 | #1,237 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 154 | #1,463 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 207 | #1,164 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 208 | #1,187 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 211 | #1,163 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 188 | #1,273 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 185 | #1,313 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 166 | #1,430 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 256 | #1,035 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,701 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,137 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,907 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,225 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,060 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,090 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,050 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,563 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,455 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,225 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,230 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,681 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,870 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,413 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,335 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,090 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,951 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,776 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,488 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,978 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 21 | #4,024 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,747 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,315 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,338 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,580 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,487 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,963 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,075 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,677 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,526 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,609 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,136 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,769 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,863 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,950 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,309 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,465 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yara has been given almost only to girls: 31 boys in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Yara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yara, and how old are they?
7,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,565 Americans ever recorded as Yara. The median Yara alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 5,970 people named Yara (5,918 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,594 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 | 173 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 498 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,820 |
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 Yara born?
The states with the most babies named Yara are California, Texas and Michigan, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 88 | #377 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 54 | #597 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 42 | #218 | 1.3× |
| New York | 41 | #427 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 37 | #501 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 31 | #271 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #372 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 30 | #379 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 23 | #488 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 20 | #268 | 1.2× |
Where Yara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yara is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1969 it was given 1.4 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 Yara 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,615 babies since 1880, Yara is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 592 of their 897 babies (66%), 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 Yara
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 Yara and names like it
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yara since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Yara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.