Fun Facts About the Name Yaara
- 79 babies named Yaara: U.S. records list 79 babies given the name Yaara from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Yaara Mean?
Yaara is a feminine Hebrew name meaning "honeycomb." It comes from the Hebrew noun yaʿarah (יַעֲרָה), a feminine form built on the consonants y-ʿ-r. The word is used in that sense in the Hebrew Bible: in 1 Samuel 14:27 Jonathan dips his staff into yaʿarat ha-devash, "the honeycomb," and Song of Songs 5:1 has yaʿri ʿim divshi, "my honeycomb with my honey." So the literal sense behind the name is the wax structure the bees fill with honey, not honey itself.
The same consonants also spell yaʿar (יַעַר), the common biblical noun for "forest" or "woodland," as in 1 Samuel 14:25, where the people come into ba-yaʿar and find honey on the ground. Whether "honeycomb" and "forest" are one root with two senses or two separate words that happen to share consonants is not settled, and the derivation of the honeycomb sense remains uncertain. In Modern Hebrew yaʿar is the ordinary word for forest, while yaʿarah is understood as honeycomb. The name is not connected to the similar-sounding Hebrew name Yaʾir, which comes from a different root.
Yaara Name History & Origins
Yaara is used as a personal name in Modern Hebrew, mainly in Israel. The biblical occurrences of the word are of the common noun for "honeycomb," not of a personal name, so the given name rests on biblical vocabulary rather than on a biblical figure.
The name belongs to a broad pattern in Israeli naming, in which Hebrew words for plants, animals, and natural features were taken up as personal names as Hebrew was revived as a spoken language in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of these names, like Yaara, are Biblical Hebrew words reused with a new function. In Hebrew it is written יַעֲרָה; in English it is usually spelled Yaara or Ya'ara.
Yaara should not be confused with the similar-looking name Yara, which has separate and unrelated origins. The shared spelling of part of the two names does not indicate a common source.
How Popular is the Name Yaara?
Yaara has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #8,834 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,834 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2023 | #10,259 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2022 | #13,504 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2021 | #9,525 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2020 | #12,088 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #15,451 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #10,080 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2011 | #16,661 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #13,393 | 8 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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