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Jyra

Gender
Girl
Say it
JY-ruh
Origin
Modern

Jyra is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Jyra come from?

Modern

Is Jyra a girl's or a boy's name?

Jyra is a girls' name.

How popular is Jyra in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.

Half of all the girls named Jyra in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

1992Busiest: 12 in 20022023
Jyra in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20238#11,164
20220–
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20107#13,442
20096#15,236
20088#12,574
20070–
20069#11,412
200510#10,123
20048#11,617
20030–
200212#8,274
20016#13,514
20009#9,867
19999#9,472
19986#12,420
199710#8,329
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19927#10,471

Names like Jyra

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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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, “Jyra: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jyra, updated 20 October 2026.