Yamira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ya-MEE-ra
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Yamira is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
Where does Yamira come from?
Latin American name of uncertain origin
Is Yamira a girl's or a boy's name?
Yamira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yamira in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 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, 10 girls in the US were named Yamira, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.
2025 had the most girls named Yamira of any year since it first appeared, in 1970.
Half of all the girls named Yamira in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yamira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,755 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,518 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,008 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,282 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,482 |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,421 |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,069 |
Names like Yamira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Samira, Aaliyah, Amira, Safiya, Zaira, Zahara, Zamira, Khadija, Halima, Zahira, Hadassah
Names related to Yamira
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, “Yamira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yamira, updated 20 October 2026.