Yajaira
Feminine
Yajaira is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 5,674 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Yajaira is a Venezuelan coinage that spread across Latin America, and its origin is a genuine small mystery.
How old is the name Yajaira?
Yajaira first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Yajaira alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 5,600 people named Yajaira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yajaira most popular?
Yajaira peaked in 1996, reaching #916 nationally. Today it ranks #4352, 3,436 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Yajaira
Ours, offered as ours. Yajaira is one of a set of Venezuelan and Colombian names that appeared in the middle of the twentieth century, spread rapidly across Latin America and have no traceable ancestry — Yajaira, Yusmary, Yorbelis, Yenifer. The Y opening is the recognizable signature. Some were made from parents' names, some from radio and television, and some simply invented. That the origin is lost within seventy years is itself a good fact about how naming works.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source language or meaning is documented. The name appears in Venezuelan records from the mid-twentieth century and spread from there; attributions to Hebrew and to indigenous languages circulate without support.
Pronouncing Yajaira
yah-HY-rah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle; the j is a throat sound in Spanish.
Nicknames for Yajaira
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
- 1973
- Most girls named
- 2005231 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #916reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%32 in 2025, from 32
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.
Yajaira in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yahaira in Spanish — spelling variant
- Yajayra in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Yajairas among us
people named Yajaira are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was named Yajaira
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 Jeffrey test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yajaira's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jeffrey climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jeffrey's path sketches the road Yajaira is walking now.
Yajaira 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 Yajaira is headed
Yajaira 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.
Yajaira beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yajaira in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It belongs clearly to a living Venezuelan and Caribbean naming tradition.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at first sight.
- Yaya and Yaja are both warm household forms.
- The Spanish j is a throat sound English speakers will render as a j.
- Yajaira, Yahaira and Yajayra are all in use and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yajairas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,600 people named Yajaira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yajaira in 2025?
- Yajaira ranks #4352 among US girl names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yajaira?
- About 1 in every 50,227 US girls born in 2025 was named Yajaira — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yajaira with classmates?
- Yajaira will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Yajaira
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