Yira — girls' name

What the Data Says About Yira

The Social Security Administration has registered 13 babies named Yira between 1981 and 2000, spanning 20 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yira currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 8 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yira performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 8 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Yira shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yira in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yira 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 13 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.