Yari
Yari was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,166 among girls’ names; 635 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yari?
#4,166 among girls’ names, 2025
Yari rose from #7,593 in 2015 to #4,166 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 21.8 per million.
53 babies in 2024, the peak
Yari peaked in 2024, when 53 babies were given it (44 girls, #3,573 among girls’ names). The 35 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,166 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,573 | 27.2 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,989 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,197 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,877 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,540 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,151 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,996 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,082 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,608 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,593 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,620 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,354 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,441 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,594 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,969 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,051 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,057 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,311 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,223 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,855 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,236 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,483 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,803 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,706 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,758 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,361 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,528 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,683 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,769 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 635 Americans recorded as Yari, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 35 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yari, and how old are they?
An estimated 630 Americans named Yari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 979 people named Yari (829 women and girls, 150 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 403 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Yari rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,304 babies since 1880, Yari is the third most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 914 babies (3.8%), again the third 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 Yari
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 Yari and names like it
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