Yara is a girl's name of Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning “small butterfly.” In 2024 it was given to 519 girls in the United States.
Yara belongs to the Biblical & Christian and Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “small butterfly” — is the sense carried by its Hebrew and Biblical roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Yara first appears in Social Security records in 1969. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #572 in 2022, and in 2024 519 babies received the name — 6,945 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Yara means “small butterfly” in its Hebrew and Biblical roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Yara is a girl name. In 2024, 519 babies received the name in the US.
Yara comes from the Biblical & Christian and Muslim & Arabic tradition.
Yara first appears in US records in 1969. Its best-ever ranking was #572 in 2022, and 519 babies were given the name in 2024.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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