Yair

Where Yair comes from

Transliteration of Hebrew יַאִיר, meaning "he will light up".
— Wiktionary's entry for Yair
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1963
    Yair Lapid born
    Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Former Prime Minister of Israel in 2022 and Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party
  2. 1976
    First appearance
    #4,935 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1992
    Yair Rodríguez born
    Mexican mixed martial artist and Taekwondo black belt
  4. 2006
    Peak, #705
    311 babies named Yair — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,229.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Yair Lapid · Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Former Prime Minister of Israel in 2022 and Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party, born 1963
  • Yair Rodríguez · Mexican mixed martial artist and Taekwondo black belt, born 1992
  • Yair Golan · Israeli general, politician and Leader of the Democrats (Party) and last leader of the Labour Party in the year 2024 (defunct in 2024), born 1962
  • Yair Qedar · Israeli filmmaker, born 1969
  • Yair Dalal · Israeli composer and musician, born 1955

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.