Jahaira

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 11 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
11
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Jahaira by the numbers

Jahaira was given to 11 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 73 babies in 2003, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Jahaira

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jahaira. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Jahara6 in the US (2017)
  • Jahira6 in the US (2017)
  • Jamaicaland of wood and water10 in the US (2017)
  • Jalailagreat or mighty; a form of Jalal8 in the US (2017)
  • Jasirabold, courageous6 in the US (2017)
  • Jahannagod is gracious; a form of Johanna5 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Jahaira

Names that are said the same way as Jahaira, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Jahaira

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