Yair
#1,443 for boys in 2025, 124 births
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 311 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,042since 1976
Yair over time
Rank among boys' names. Yair has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,443 | 124 |
| 2024 | #1,397 | 134 |
| 2023 | #1,140 | 184 |
| 2022 | #1,379 | 135 |
| 2021 | #1,527 | 116 |
| 2020 | #1,539 | 107 |
| 2019 | #1,188 | 161 |
| 2018 | #1,119 | 173 |
| 2017 | #1,219 | 150 |
| 2016 | #1,229 | 152 |
| 2015 | #1,160 | 161 |
| 2014 | #1,097 | 174 |
| 2013 | #966 | 207 |
| 2012 | #1,124 | 163 |
| 2011 | #998 | 194 |
| 2010 | #971 | 203 |
| 2009 | #835 | 259 |
| 2008 | #834 | 262 |
| 2007 | #753 | 295 |
| 2006 | #705 | 311 |
| 2005 | #758 | 262 |
| 2004 | #741 | 252 |
| 2003 | #717 | 259 |
| 2002 | #1,236 | 110 |
| 2001 | #1,600 | 74 |
| 2000 | #2,049 | 49 |
| 1999 | #2,560 | 34 |
| 1998 | #2,394 | 36 |
| 1997 | #1,991 | 45 |
| 1996 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #3,030 | 23 |
| 1993 | #3,141 | 21 |
| 1992 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #2,915 | 22 |
| 1990 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #3,882 | 11 |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #3,108 | 14 |
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| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
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| 1976 | #4,935 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yair! It came in at #4,935, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Yair is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#792 · 1 in 6,387
- California#797 · 1 in 6,990
- New Jersey#986 · 1 in 8,305
- New York#1,052 · 1 in 9,091
- Florida#1,150 · 1 in 10,882
Best ever in a state: #308 in Nevada, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #792 | 29 | 1 in 6,387 |
| California | #797 | 32 | 1 in 6,990 |
| New Jersey | #986 | 5 | 1 in 8,305 |
| New York | #1,052 | 11 | 1 in 9,091 |
| Florida | #1,150 | 9 | 1 in 10,882 |
| Illinois | #1,311 | 5 | 1 in 12,834 |
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See more about Yair
- 46 spots since 2024 (#1,397 → #1,443)
- 96 spots since 2020 (#1,539 → #1,443)
- 283 spots since 2015 (#1,160 → #1,443)
- Biggest jump: 519 spots in 2003 (#1,236 → #717)
- Biggest drop: 136 spots in 2010 (#835 → #971)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2006 at #705 (311 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2003–2011
- Highest: 1 in 6,609 boys born in 2006 were named Yair (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,775 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 42.3% of all boys named Yair (2,133) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 19 | #4,157 (1978) | #5,049 |
| 1980s | 91 | #3,108 (1982) | #4,314 |
| 1990s | 261 | #1,991 (1997) | #2,953 |
| 2000s | 2,133 | #705 (2006) | #1,023 |
| 2010s | 1,738 | #966 (2013) | #1,107 |
| 2020s | 800 | #1,140 (2023) | #1,404 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yair in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 12,485 of them was named Yair, which outranked 91.3% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,221Kairo153
- #1,221Koa153
- #1,221Rian153
- #1,229Yair152
- #1,229Benedict152
- #1,229Kaisen152
- #1,229Neal152
- #1,234Anas151
- #1,234Branden151
- #1,234Cornelius151
Tied with 4 names at #1,229; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.