How rare is the name Yadira?

21,780 people in the United States have the first name Yadira, about 1 in 13,867. It ranks #1,519 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

YADIRA

#1,519

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
21,780
About
1 in 13,867
This common or more
75.3%
Who bears it

Of the 21,780 people named Yadira, 98.5% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Yadira peaked in 2005, when 593 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19492025
Peak year
2005
Births that year
593
In 2025*
38 ▼94%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,838 babies have been given the name since 1949. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Yadira by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,180. The largest share of babies named Yadira, 46%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1940s#12,5745
1950s#10,13425
1960s#6,070112
1970s#1,8301,130
1980s#1,3392,245
1990s#1,1803,530
2000s#1,1904,345
2010s#3,2141,164
2020s#5,869282
Baby boom 1946–640.5%
Generation X 1965–8011.4%
Millennials 1981–9635.5%
Generation Z 1997–1246%
2013 and later6.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Yadira is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Yadira has been most common in California (4.3×), Texas (2.9×), and Arizona (2.9×), and least common in Michigan (0.12×).

11,062 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Yadira, most common first.

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