Given name
Yashira
“blessed with God's grace”
Yashira is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “blessed with God's grace.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “blessed with God's grace.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yashira through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 525
- 0 boys · 525 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 31 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,871 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −60%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,871 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 31 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,229 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.
Yashira’s family of names
Yashira has a related form in Yashara. Yashira has a related form in Yasheara. Yashira has a related form in Yashearah.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Yasshiralikely variant
- Yashearahvariant
- Yashearavariant
- Yasheirahvariant
- Yasheiravariant
- Yashierahvariant
- Yashieravariant
- Yasharavariant
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