Yaira

girls:

556 births since 1979

#5160 (10th percentile)

overall:

556 births since 1979

#7183 (7th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Yaira is the #7,183 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 556 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 7.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,160 (9.7% percentile) for all time with 556 births since 1979.

Yaira first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979). Birth data for Yaira is available in 39 out of the 45 years between 1979 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Yaira reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #871) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Yaira ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 56.0% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yaira".

1979 2023 19792023

Key Statistics

Total Births
556
Peak Births
42
Peak Year
2003
First Recorded
1979
Peak Percentile
4.0%
Current Percentile
1.6%
Peak Rank
#871
Current Rank
#932
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Yaira

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Yaira. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 57.1% confident that Yaira is pronounced as YAI-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YEH-ruh, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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YAI-ruh (2 syllables)
57.1% confidence
Y AY1 R AH0
YEH-ruh (2 syllables)
28.6% confidence
Y EH1 R AH0
YAY-ruh (2 syllables)
14.3% confidence
Y EY1 R AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like Y AY1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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