Yara
#507 for girls in 2025, 585 births · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 585 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,534since 1969
Yara over time
Rank among girls' names. Yara has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #507 | 585 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #581 | 519 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #612 | 488 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #571 | 526 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #657 | 454 | — | |
| 2020 | #654 | 441 | — | |
| 2019 | #765 | 365 | — | |
| 2018 | #671 | 437 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #985 | 264 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,330 | 178 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,236 | 199 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,459 | 154 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,161 | 207 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,179 | 208 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,160 | 211 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,269 | 188 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,307 | 185 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,426 | 166 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,030 | 256 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,691 | 124 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,122 | 87 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,895 | 99 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,203 | 78 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,046 | 84 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,075 | 80 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,034 | 81 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,527 | 56 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,429 | 57 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,200 | 62 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,650 | 46 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,848 | 42 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,267 | 34 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,036 | 37 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,900 | 39 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,308 | 20 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,890 | 21 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,704 | 35 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,532 | 37 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,447 | 39 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,936 | 55 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,997 | 28 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,950 | 16 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | — | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
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| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Yara! It came in at #6,617, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Yara is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#756 · 1 in 4,123
- Michigan#756 · 1 in 4,217
- Maryland#877 · 1 in 4,862
- Virginia#908 · 1 in 5,331
- Missouri#952 · 1 in 5,422
Best ever in a state: #86 in District of Columbia, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | #756 | 10 | 1 in 4,217 |
| New Jersey | #756 | 9 | 1 in 4,123 |
| Maryland | #877 | 5 | 1 in 4,862 |
| Virginia | #908 | 7 | 1 in 5,331 |
| Missouri | #952 | 5 | 1 in 5,422 |
| Arizona | #1,102 | 5 | 1 in 6,341 |
| New York | #1,208 | 12 | 1 in 7,704 |
| Ohio | #1,288 | 6 | 1 in 8,824 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,372 | 5 | 1 in 10,642 |
| Georgia | #1,454 | 5 | 1 in 9,641 |
| Texas | #1,471 | 16 | 1 in 10,423 |
| California | #1,544 | 17 | 1 in 12,333 |
| Florida | #2,003 | 5 | 1 in 16,746 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Yara
- 74 spots since 2024 (#581 → #507)
- 147 spots since 2020 (#654 → #507)
- 729 spots since 2015 (#1,236 → #507)
- Biggest jump: 345 spots in 2017 (#1,330 → #985)
- Biggest drop: 94 spots in 2019 (#671 → #765)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2025 at #507 (585 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,747 girls born in 2025 were named Yara (0.04%)
- 40.0% of all girls named Yara (3,013) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #6,617 (1969) | #6,617 |
| 1970s | 122 | #2,997 (1979) | #4,866 |
| 1980s | 299 | #1,936 (1980) | #3,276 |
| 1990s | 443 | #2,200 (1997) | #2,836 |
| 2000s | 1,240 | #1,030 (2007) | #1,783 |
| 2010s | 2,411 | #671 (2018) | #1,122 |
| 2020s | 3,013 | #507 (2025) | #597 |
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.
Yara in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 11,600 of them was named Yara, which outranked 92.4% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,454Gina155
- #1,454Maribel155
- #1,454Sarina155
- #1,459Yara154
- #1,459Clover154
- #1,459Dafne154
- #1,459Delanie154
- #1,464Aida153
- #1,464Analise153
- #1,464Dalila153
Tied with 4 names at #1,459; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.