Jirah
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- JY-ra
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Jirah is a name of Hebrew origin, meaning “the Lord will provide”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Jirah mean?
Hebrew: from Jehovah-jireh
“the Lord will provide”
From Jehovah-jireh, the name Abraham gives the place where Isaac is spared in Genesis.
Is Jirah a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Jirah has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls and 10 boys in the US.
How popular is Jirah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,489among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 231% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Jirah, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997. 10 boys were also named Jirah in 2025 (7,675th for boys).
Half of all the girls named Jirah in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 133 girls in the US were given Jirah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,385, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.
Jirah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,386 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,495 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,692 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,951 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
Names like Jirah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah Aaliyah Jaliyah Zaniyah Salem Safa Kaliyah Taliyah Selah Zainab Farah Naziyah
Other spellings of Jirah
Names related to Jirah
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Jirah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jirah, updated 20 October 2026.