Yahir

What Yahir means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Yahir yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 1,274 babies; 305 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Yahir?

US: Falling: down from #661 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2003, when 1,274 boys got the name (#258 that year). First in the US records in 1992.

How common

• About 1 in 5,600 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CO (0.52 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.44 per 1,000 boys), AR (0.4 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Yahir is #814 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Yahir were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Yahir

Boys

• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Ashton#197“ash (tree species) + enclosure, settlement”^*
• Carson#124“rock”^*
• Luke#33Editor’s note Down from #28 in 2015 to #33 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 250 US boys in the 2025 records

For a sister

• Ella#29Short form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Natalia#144“birthday (of the Lord)”^*
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Lillian#57possibly “lily”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Yahir’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.