Fun Facts About the Name Yahra
- 31 babies named Yahra: U.S. records list 31 babies given the name Yahra from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Yahra Mean?
Yahra is a given name whose meaning is uncertain. No language of origin can be reliably identified from its spelling. It is not safe to treat it as a variant of Yara: Yara has independent Arabic and Tupi-Guarani backgrounds, and the Hebrew name Yaara is also separate. Similar spelling alone does not establish a shared etymology.
Yahra Name History & Origins
The historical development of Yahra is unclear. Its spelling does not point to a single documented earlier form or language transmission. The name should be discussed on its own rather than through the histories of Yara or Yaara, unless a documented connection is found.
How Popular is the Name Yahra?
Yahra 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 2020. Its best rank was #11,033 in 2020.
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 | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | #17,530 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2023 | #15,089 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #15,206 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2020 | #11,033 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2019 | #17,877 | 5 | 0.0003% |
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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How the Name Yahra Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You have a strong need for freedom - physical, mental and spiritual. You hate bondage in any form. You have love of beauty and philosophy, and you desire achievement. You are willing to take spiritual matters on faith instead of subjecting them to mental analysis. You are inventive, intuitive and extremely methodical. Since your will is so strong, you are hard to convince. You also dislike advice. You love beauty and philosophy, and you desire achievement. You have a strong need for freedom - physical, mental and spiritual.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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