Yarah — #5222 US girls' name
334 babies named Yarah in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 70% of names given to girls today.
40% of everyone ever named Yarah was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Yarah in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Yarah
The Social Security Administration has registered 334 babies named Yarah between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yarah currently holds the #5222 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Yarah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 132 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Yarah shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yarah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Yarah 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 334 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.
Yarah at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Yarah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1996
- Peak year (2022)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
Currently ranks #5222 among girls.
334 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 27 births in a single year.
Yarah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 132 births that decade — 40% of Yarah's all-time total
Yarah decade highlights
- Peak decade 132 births
- Runner-up 115 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Yarah's strongest decade
132 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Yarah by state
Where Yarah concentrates geographically — total births since 1996
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Florida | | 6 | 1.8% |
6 of 334 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Florida 1.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Florida accounts for 1.8% 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, 1996–2024 (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.