Yajaira
#4,352 for girls in 2025, 32 births · Last seen for boys in 1994 at #8,800
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 214 births
- Debut · girls
- 55 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,674since 1973
Yajaira over time
Rank among girls' names. Yajaira has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,352 | 32 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,662 | 29 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,379 | 47 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,488 | 31 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,870 | 59 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,632 | 68 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,416 | 76 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,202 | 88 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,860 | 114 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,657 | 135 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,402 | 170 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,314 | 178 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,037 | 231 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,038 | 223 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,180 | 182 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,252 | 158 | — | |
| 2001 | #961 | 226 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,098 | 187 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,012 | 202 | — | |
| 1998 | #965 | 212 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,008 | 191 | — | |
| 1996 | #916 | 214 | — | |
| 1995 | #986 | 190 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,034 | 178 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #1,100 | 164 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,305 | 129 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,071 | 169 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,307 | 124 | — | |
| 1989 | #944 | 188 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,354 | 105 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,553 | 81 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,367 | 94 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,109 | 130 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,279 | 98 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,358 | 88 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,187 | 115 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,382 | 89 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,337 | 94 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,226 | 106 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,366 | 86 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,865 | 26 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,616 | 28 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,647 | 55 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Yajaira! It came in at #1,647, and was given to 55 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 27 girls a year got the name.
Where Yajaira is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nevada#381 · 1 in 1,709
- Arizona#400 · 1 in 2,005
- California#508 · 1 in 3,184
- Texas#535 · 1 in 3,331
- Colorado#694 · 1 in 4,190
Best ever in a state: #314 in Connecticut, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Nevada | #381 | 5 | 1 in 1,709 |
| Arizona | #400 | 14 | 1 in 2,005 |
| California | #508 | 70 | 1 in 3,184 |
| Texas | #535 | 42 | 1 in 3,331 |
| Colorado | #694 | 5 | 1 in 4,190 |
| Washington | #720 | 6 | 1 in 4,772 |
| New Jersey | #855 | 6 | 1 in 6,959 |
| New York | #1,192 | 10 | 1 in 10,100 |
| Illinois | #1,266 | 6 | 1 in 11,653 |
| Florida | #1,501 | 5 | 1 in 14,670 |
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See more about Yajaira
- 35 spots since 2024 (#4,387 → #4,352)
- 101 spots since 2020 (#4,453 → #4,352)
- 136 spots since 2015 (#4,488 → #4,352)
- Biggest jump: 410 spots in 1989 (#1,354 → #944)
- Biggest drop: 363 spots in 1990 (#944 → #1,307)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1996 at #916 (214 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1995–1996
- Highest: 1 in 7,967 girls born in 2001 were named Yajaira (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 50,227 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #916 in 1996, was only 1 in 8,192 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.8% of all girls named Yajaira (1,804) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 345 | #1,226 (1979) | #2,349 |
| 1980s | 1,082 | #944 (1989) | #1,287 |
| 1990s | 1,773 | #916 (1996) | #1,070 |
| 2000s | 1,804 | #961 (2001) | #1,280 |
| 2010s | 486 | #2,202 (2010) | #3,701 |
| 2020s | 184 | #3,801 (2021) | #4,525 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yajaira in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
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1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 9,114 of them was named Yajaira, which outranked 93.8% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,004Katia193
- #1,004Kia193
- #1,007Hazel192
- #1,008Yajaira191
- #1,008Astrid191
- #1,008Daja191
- #1,008Leigh191
- #1,013Layla190
- #1,013Lilia190
- #1,013Lina190
Tied with 4 names at #1,008; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.