Yair
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʝaiɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yair is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Hebrew יַאִיר, meaning "he will light up".
- COColombia≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- PAPanama≈1 in 4.2K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Transliteration of Hebrew יַאִיר, meaning "he will light up".
Sources 1
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yair counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #410 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 5 | Yair | 79 |
| US United States | — | 4,382 | 1 in 76K | 4.3K | Yair | 164 |
| AR Argentina | #753 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 283 | Yair | 60 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Yair | 40 |
| PA Panama | #198 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 2 | Yair | 23 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Yair | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Yair is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of þeir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yair Tzabanb. 1930ILIsraeli politician
- Yair Hoffmanb. 1937ILIsraelian bible researcher
- Yair Levyb. 1952ILIsraeli politician
- Yair Golanb. 1962ILIsraeli general, politician and Leader of the Democrats (Party) and last leader of the Labour Party in the year 2024 (defunct in 2024)
- Yair Lapidb. 1963ILLeader of the Opposition in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Former Prime Minister of Israel in 2022 and Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party
- Yair Qedarb. 1969ILIsraeli filmmaker
- Yair Netanyahub. 1991ILson of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
- Yair Rodríguezb. 1992MXMexican mixed martial artist and Taekwondo black belt
- Yair Koasb. 1997ILIsraeli actor
- Yair RosenbergUSAmerican journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.3K | #4,320 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2014 | 1.1K | #289 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2013 | 951 | #313 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2012 | 884 | #318 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2015 | 870 | #322 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 283 | #412 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 124 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 41 | #4,320 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 28 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 28 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 5 | #116 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 2 | #1,654 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yair mean, and where does it come from?
- Transliteration of Hebrew יַאִיר, meaning "he will light up". Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Yair?
- A machine transcription gives /ʝaiɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Yair a male or female name?
- Yair is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Yair?
- In the etymology graph, Jair, Jairus and Iair are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yair have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Yair in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yair.
- How common is the name Yair?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,382 people named Yair in 2020, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
- How common is Yair compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Yair is the 410th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yair?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yairThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yair” — the 410th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.