Yarah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- YAH-ra
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,877 for girls
Yarah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 4,877th for girls in the US (27 babies).
What does Yarah mean?
Spelling of Yara; several independent sources, including Arabic, Persian and Brazilian Tupi
In Brazilian folklore Iara, or Yara, is a beautiful water spirit of the Amazon.
Meaning borrowed from Yara. More on Wiktionary.
Is Yarah a girl's or a boy's name?
Yarah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 27 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yarah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,101among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Yarah, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls.
2025 had the most girls named Yarah of any year since it first appeared, in 2002.
In 2025, 159 girls in the UK were given Yarah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #321, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Yara 151
- Yarah 8
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Yarah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 2 | #7,280 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 1 | #7,629 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
How popular is Yarah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,877among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 27about 1 in 60,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 30% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 27 girls in the US were named Yarah, making it the 4,877th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Yarah in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 617 girls in the US were given Yarah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #503, up from #4,877 for this spelling alone.
- Yara 585
- Yarah 27
- Yarra 5
Yarah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,877 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,145 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,747 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,904 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,394 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,794 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
Names like Yarah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Nusaybah Ayah Zainab Aaliyah Hafsa Hiba Sumayyah Ruqayyah Rahma Izzah Aaminah
Other spellings of Yarah
Names related to Yarah
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, “Yarah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yarah, updated 20 October 2026.