# Yajaira (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yajaira/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,679 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 5,674 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 76 | 2,433 |
| 2012 | 68 | 2,653 |
| 2013 | 59 | 2,901 |
| 2014 | 35 | 4,264 |
| 2015 | 31 | 4,581 |
| 2016 | 47 | 3,409 |
| 2017 | 32 | 4,476 |
| 2018 | 29 | 4,765 |
| 2019 | 21 | 5,976 |
| 2020 | 30 | 4,541 |
| 2021 | 39 | 3,878 |
| 2022 | 27 | 5,018 |
| 2023 | 24 | 5,379 |
| 2024 | 32 | 4,467 |
| 2025 | 32 | 4,457 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | 10,207 |

## People named Yajaira

- Tamara Salazar, Ecuadorian weightlifter

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.