Yadira
Feminine
Yadira is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 12,815 girls against 23 boys since 1880.
Yadira is a Spanish-language name well used in Mexico and among Mexican-American families, and its origin has never been established despite its currency.
How old is the name Yadira?
Yadira first appears in US birth records in 1949 — 76 years ago. The typical Yadira alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 12,500 people named Yadira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yadira most popular?
Yadira peaked in 2005, reaching #506 nationally. Today it ranks #3832, 3,326 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Yadira
Ours, offered as ours. Mexican naming in the twentieth century produced a substantial number of new women's names — Yadira, Yaritza, Yesenia, Anahí — many of them beginning with Y, and several of them traceable to a specific novel or telenovela rather than to any etymology. Yesenia came from a comic and a film. Yadira's route is not recorded. What is certain is the community: it is thoroughly Mexican and thoroughly modern.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No documented source. Readings connecting it to Hebrew Yadid, beloved, or to an Arabic source circulate in name lists without support. Its record is Latin American and twentieth-century, which suggests a coinage rather than a descent.
Pronouncing Yadira
yah-DEE-rah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every letter is sounded in Spanish.
Nicknames for Yadira
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1949
- Most girls named
- 2005593 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #506reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −17.4%38 in 2025, from 46
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Yadira in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yadhira in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Yadiras among us
people named Yadira are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was named Yadira
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Renae test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yadira's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Renae climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Renae's path sketches the road Yadira is walking now.
Yadira sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Yadira is headed
Yadira should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Yadira beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yadira in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at first sight.
- It belongs clearly to a living Mexican naming tradition.
- Yadi is a warm short form already in household use.
- English readers do not know where the stress falls.
- The meanings circulated for it in name lists are not supported.
- Yadira and Yadhira are both used and relatives may prefer the other.
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Feminine · #3832 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Yadiras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,500 people named Yadira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yadira in 2025?
- Yadira ranks #3832 among US girl names in 2025, with 38 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yadira?
- About 1 in every 42,297 US girls born in 2025 was named Yadira — 38 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yadira with classmates?
- Yadira will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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