Girls' name · since 2023
Yarra
Yarra has 11 recorded births since 2023 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #54,434 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,906 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 11
- born since 2023
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Yarra is the #16906 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 11 recorded since 2023.
Yarra has 11 recorded births among girls since 2023, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16906 as of the latest data, more common than 2% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2023 to 2025.
- #54,434 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,906 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 11 born since 2023
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yarra ranks #54,434 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,906 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 11 born since 2023, peaking in the 2020s.
- #54,434 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,906 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 11
- born since 2023
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yarra's 11 recorded births place it above 24.68% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Yarra compares
11 4th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Yarra's all-time total is 97% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Yarra | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 11 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Yarra's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Yarra splits its recorded history at 2025: 45% of all births land in the more recent half, 55% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2025 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2023 peak of 6 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Yarra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
Yarra by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (11 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Yarra's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Yarra births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 11 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Yarra: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~2 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2023–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Yarra draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.