girl's name

Yarah

  • Origin Atayal
  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 457

Yarah is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 27 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Yarah is a name of Atayal origin.
  • Peaked in 2022, when 27 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 122,805 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1996.

Yarah over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1990s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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'90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Yarah by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1990s 10
2000s 77
2010s 132
2020s (to 2025) 142

How popular is Yarah?

In 2025, Yarah was given to 27 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Yarah is used

Canada #2,427 9 in 2024
France #3,283 10 in 2025
England & Wales #3,305 8 in 2025
United States #4,973 27 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Yarah

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Yarah also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Yarah over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Yarah

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Yarah — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Yarah

How popular is the name Yarah?

In 2025, Yarah was given to 27 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Yarah a girl's or a boy's name?

Yarah is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Yarah most popular?

Yarah peaked in 2022, when 27 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Yarah a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Yarah currently ranks #2,427 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.