Yasirah — girls' name
40 babies named Yasirah in U.S. Social Security records since 2004, with the highest year being 2012. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
80% of everyone ever named Yasirah was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Yasirah in 2012 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Yasirah
The Social Security Administration has registered 40 babies named Yasirah between 2004 and 2019, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yasirah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Yasirah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 32 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Yasirah shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yasirah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Yasirah 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 40 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.
Yasirah at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Yasirah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2004
- Peak year (2012)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 16 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
40 total births across 16 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2012 with 10 births in a single year.
Yasirah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 32 births that decade — 80% of Yasirah's all-time total
Yasirah decade highlights
- Peak decade 32 births
- Runner-up 8 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Yasirah's strongest decade
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 80% of all-time use.
Yasirah by state
Where Yasirah concentrates geographically — total births since 2004
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 12.5% |
5 of 40 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 12.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 12.5% 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, 2004–2019 (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.