Yakira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- yah-KEER-uh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,660 for girls
Yakira is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “precious, dear”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 4,660th for girls in the US (29 babies).
What does Yakira mean?
Hebrew: feminine of yakir
“precious, dear”
Is Yakira a girl's or a boy's name?
Yakira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 29 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yakira in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Yakira, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2011, with 5 girls.
2025 had more girls named Yakira than any year since 2019.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Yakira in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
How popular is Yakira in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,660th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 29 about 1 in 55,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 65% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 29 girls in the US were named Yakira, making it the 4,660th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 1997, with 51 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.
Half of all the girls named Yakira in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yakira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,386 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,955 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,790 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,517 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,234 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,252 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,725 |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,972 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,088 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,447 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,806 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,462 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,109 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,058 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,216 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,065 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,699 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,448 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,800 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,298 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,508 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,896 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,343 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,792 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,518 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,413 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,811 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,187 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,239 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,802 |
Names like Yakira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Amira, Khadija, Raya, Yusra, Aisha, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Anaya, Amaya, Hiba, Hawa
Names related to Yakira
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Yakira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yakira, updated 20 October 2026.