Yakira
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 51 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 993since 1981
Yakira over time
Rank among girls' names. Yakira has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,661 | 29 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 |
| 2018 | #6,521 | 18 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 |
| 2006 | #4,463 | 32 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 |
| 2003 | #4,220 | 31 |
| 2002 | #3,069 | 47 |
| 2001 | #3,703 | 35 |
| 2000 | #3,453 | 38 |
| 1999 | #3,804 | 31 |
| 1998 | #3,301 | 37 |
| 1997 | #2,511 | 51 |
| 1996 | #2,901 | 41 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 |
| 1994 | #2,797 | 43 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 |
| 1992 | #3,419 | 32 |
| 1991 | #3,817 | 27 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
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| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
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| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Yakira! It came in at #6,804, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982–1983, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Yakira is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#684 · 1 in 5,007
- Georgia#725 · 1 in 5,346
- Florida#1,183 · 1 in 10,479
- New York#1,932 · 1 in 20,200
Best ever in a state: #684 in North Carolina, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #684 | 8 | 1 in 5,007 |
| Georgia | #725 | 8 | 1 in 5,346 |
| Florida | #1,183 | 7 | 1 in 10,479 |
| New York | #1,932 | 5 | 1 in 20,200 |
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See more about Yakira
- 274 spots since 2024 (#4,387 → #4,661)
- 2,551 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #4,661)
- 1,575 spots since 2015 (#6,236 → #4,661)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 1997 at #2,511 (51 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 34,132 girls born in 1997 were named Yakira (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,423 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.1% of all girls named Yakira (319) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 28 | #6,804 (1981) | #9,010 |
| 1990s | 314 | #2,511 (1997) | #4,162 |
| 2000s | 319 | #3,069 (2002) | #4,443 |
| 2010s | 198 | #4,974 (2010) | #6,323 |
| 2020s | 134 | #4,387 (2024) | #5,784 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yakira in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 34,132 of them was named Yakira, which outranked 84.5% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,481Tynesha52
- #2,481Tytianna52
- #2,481Zuri52
- #2,511Yakira51
- #2,511Adara51
- #2,511Adia51
- #2,511Aleyah51
- #2,556Afton50
- #2,556Aime50
- #2,556Amberlee50
Tied with 44 names at #2,511; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.