Yahaira vs Yahya
American parents have registered 5,176 Yahairas since 1880, against 4,582 Yahyas. But in 2025 it was Yahya that was commoner, 455 babies to 27.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Yahaira Yahya
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 54 years in which either name was published, Yahaira for 39 years and Yahya for 15 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.
Side by side
| Yahaira | Yahya | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 5,176 | 4,582 |
| Most in one year | 311 | 455 |
| Babies in 2025 | 27 | 455 |
| Estimated living today | 5,100 | 4,500 |
| Median age today | 22 | 8 |
| Peak year | 2005 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 824th girls | 615th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,878th | 615th |
| First recorded | 1973 | 1972 |
| Girls / boys | 5,176 / 0 | 6 / 4,576 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Yahairas alive today are over 22; half the Yahyas are over 8. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Yahaira California (3.6×), Arizona (3.3×), Texas (3.1×)
- Yahya Minnesota (5.5×), Virginia (2.3×), Washington (2.2×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yahaira and Yahya.