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Yarimar

Gender
Girl
Say it
yah-ree-MAR
Origin
Modern

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

Where does Yarimar come from?

Modern: blend of Yari and Spanish mar 'sea'

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

Yarimar is a girls' name.

How popular is Yarimar in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2003, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.

Half of all the girls named Yarimar in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

1992Busiest: 11 in 20032017
Yarimar in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20176#14,120
20160–
20150–
20149#10,949
20135#16,542
20126#14,956
20118#12,146
20105#16,985
20096#15,236
20085#17,498
20077#13,918
20060–
20056#14,495
20049#10,684
200311#9,043
20020–
20017#12,049
20000–
19995#14,403
19988#10,116
19976#12,065
19965#13,511
19955#13,380
19940–
19935#13,435
19925#13,308

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