Yajaira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- yah-HY-ruh
- US rank, 2025
- #4,351 for girls
Yajaira is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,351st for girls in the US (32 babies).
Where does Yajaira come from?
Variant of Yahaira, a Latin American name of uncertain origin
Is Yajaira a girl's or a boy's name?
Yajaira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 32 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yajaira in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,351st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 32 about 1 in 50,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 10% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 32 girls in the US were named Yajaira, making it the 4,351st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,451st. Its busiest year was 2005, with 231 girls. It first appears in the records in 1973.
Half of all the girls named Yajaira in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yajaira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,351 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,386 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,245 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,904 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,800 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,451 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,794 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,383 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,379 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,487 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,176 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,869 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,632 |
| 2011 | 76 | #2,415 |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,202 |
| 2009 | 114 | #1,860 |
| 2008 | 135 | #1,657 |
| 2007 | 170 | #1,402 |
| 2006 | 178 | #1,314 |
| 2005 | 231 | #1,037 |
| 2004 | 223 | #1,038 |
| 2003 | 182 | #1,179 |
| 2002 | 158 | #1,251 |
| 2001 | 226 | #960 |
| 2000 | 187 | #1,096 |
| 1999 | 202 | #1,010 |
| 1998 | 212 | #964 |
| 1997 | 191 | #1,007 |
| 1996 | 214 | #915 |
| 1995 | 190 | #983 |
| 1994 | 178 | #1,032 |
| 1993 | 164 | #1,098 |
| 1992 | 129 | #1,302 |
| 1991 | 169 | #1,068 |
| 1990 | 124 | #1,303 |
| 1989 | 188 | #941 |
| 1988 | 105 | #1,353 |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,552 |
| 1986 | 94 | #1,367 |
| 1985 | 130 | #1,109 |
| 1984 | 98 | #1,279 |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,358 |
| 1982 | 115 | #1,187 |
| 1981 | 89 | #1,382 |
| 1980 | 94 | #1,337 |
| 1979 | 106 | #1,226 |
| 1978 | 86 | #1,366 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,910 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,864 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,811 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,616 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,647 |
Names like Yajaira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aisha, Samira, Sasha, Amira, Samara, Aaliyah, Khadija, Anika, Aliya, Zaira, Yara, Summer
Names related to Yajaira
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, “Yajaira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yajaira, updated 20 October 2026.