Yanira
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 18 babies a year in the US.
Yanira by the numbers
Yanira was given to 18 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 123 babies in 1993, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Yanira
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 Yanira. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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