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 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#334 · 1 in 1,459
- Pennsylvania#338 · 1 in 1,414
- Maryland#365 · 1 in 1,393
- New Jersey#382 · 1 in 1,694
- Virginia#393 · 1 in 1,582
Best ever in a state: #86 in District of Columbia, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #334 | 16 | 1 in 1,459 |
| Pennsylvania | #338 | 33 | 1 in 1,414 |
| Maryland | #365 | 15 | 1 in 1,393 |
| New Jersey | #382 | 21 | 1 in 1,694 |
| Virginia | #393 | 21 | 1 in 1,582 |
| Oregon | #411 | 8 | 1 in 1,542 |
| California | #462 | 75 | 1 in 2,199 |
| New York | #481 | 35 | 1 in 2,221 |
| Georgia | #537 | 20 | 1 in 2,269 |
| Michigan | #542 | 15 | 1 in 2,352 |
| Florida | #548 | 32 | 1 in 2,659 |
| Washington | #581 | 11 | 1 in 2,568 |
| South Carolina | #624 | 7 | 1 in 2,558 |
| Louisiana | #626 | 7 | 1 in 2,505 |
| North Carolina | #638 | 15 | 1 in 2,962 |
| Arizona | #641 | 10 | 1 in 2,807 |
| Texas | #708 | 45 | 1 in 3,603 |
| Ohio | #711 | 13 | 1 in 3,612 |
| Illinois | #728 | 13 | 1 in 3,427 |
| Minnesota | #744 | 6 | 1 in 3,492 |
| Colorado | #773 | 6 | 1 in 3,604 |
| Tennessee | #827 | 8 | 1 in 3,943 |
| Missouri | #908 | 5 | 1 in 4,697 |
| Indiana | #913 | 6 | 1 in 4,638 |
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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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 3,288 of them was named Yara, which outranked 96.5% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 342,115 of them was named Yara, which outranked 13.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,976 names at #12,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.