Given name
Yajayra
“one who is precious; dear to the heart”
Yajayra is a variant of Yakira. One Hebrew interpretation is “one who is precious; dear to the heart.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yajayra is a variant of Yakira. One Hebrew interpretation is “one who is precious; dear to the heart.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yajayra is a variant of Yakira. An origin associated with Yakira is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yajayra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 304
- 0 boys · 304 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 41 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 41 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 290 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yajayra’s family of names
Yajayra has a related form in Yakira.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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