Yara

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Yara: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Yara: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #328, and it stood at #389 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#328highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#1958
1998	#2701
1999	#2189
2000	#1250
2001	#1728
2002	#1442
2003	#1628
2004	#1072
2005	#1082
2006	#1243
2007	#623
2008	#676
2009	#679
2010	#643
2011	#652
2012	#614
2013	#684
2014	#794
2015	#909
2016	#622
2017	#604
2018	#574
2019	#491
2020	#471
2021	#398
2022	#374
2023	#363
2024	#341

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2025: #389 among girls in Norway, #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2016–2023
Highest recorded position: #328 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2016–2023).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Yara appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,487 births with the name.

Yara across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Yara's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#341 (2024)	#341 (2024)	29 of 29	1,487 (1996–2024)	127 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#937 (2011)	#504 (2024)	#608 (2025)	12 of 15	57 (2011–2025)	7 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#440 (2016)	#328 (2023)	#328 (2023)	4 of 8	14 (2016–2023)	4 (2017)

Yara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Yara in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	24	4 of 10	6
2000s	280	10 of 10	28
2010s	629	10 of 10	63
2020sbusiest	554	5 of 10	111

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 111 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2006 and 2007, when recorded births rose by 35, from 21 to 56.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Yara appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #328 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Yara's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#341	127	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#363	115	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#374	114	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#398	112	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#471	86	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#491	84	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#574	72	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#604	70	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#622	68	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#909	40	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#794	49	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#684	58	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#614	68	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#652	61	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#643	59	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#679	54	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#676	54	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#623	56	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1243	21	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1082	23	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1072	22	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1628	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1442	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#389	8	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#504	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#333	10	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #328, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 127 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 29 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alia · #355, 30y
Amalia · #300, 33y
Kaya · #294, 29y
Ela · #372, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Diogo · #328, 28y
Lilianna · #328, 26y
Madelyn · #328, 30y
Rayah · #328, 22y

Yara was ranked #328 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Yara and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Yara without appearing here.

Yara moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2189 and #2189 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1250 and #3247.
Marilyn Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2701 and #2701 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1250 and #3247.
Pauline Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1628 and #1269 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1072 and #2802.
Jeanette Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2701 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #2189 and #3900.

Moved ahead of Yara

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #652 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #614 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Yara

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Yara went from #3126 to #341 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Yara went from #3126 to #341 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Yara went from #3126 to #341 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Yara went from #3126 to #341 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Yara

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Yara went from #3126 to #341 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Yara went from #3126 to #341 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Yara went from #3126 to #341 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Yara went from #3126 to #341 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #328 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Yara

Yara at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Yara across 3 official records

Yara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Yara appears in

Popularity data

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Yara at a glance

Yara across 3 official records

Yara by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Yara appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Yara

Yara and the names beside it

Yara moved ahead of

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