Yara
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Del tupí iara, ‘señora’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.8K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 3.9K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈56,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Del tupí iara, ‘señora’.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #157 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Yara | 113 |
| BR Brazil | #733 | 43,024 | 1 in 4.9K | 43K | Yara | 148 |
| SY Syria | #231 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Yara | 38 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #428 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Yara | 112 |
| JO Jordan | #551 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Yara | 58 |
| LB Lebanon | #691 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Yara | 66 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Yara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Yara har flera ursprung. I persiskan betyder namnet ’mod, kraft’. Det kan även vara ett kurdiskt namn som betyder ’vän; älskling’. I latinamerikanska sammanhang har det också föreslagits att namnet kan komma från tupi-språket och betyda ’fru; härska rinna’. En fiktiv namnbärare är Yara Greyjoy i tv-serien Game of Thrones (2011–19).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Amica
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Kurdish, Beloved, friend, yar, one who is wholeheartedly cherished and fondly remembered
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Turkish, wound, injury
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, scar, wound
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)
- Yara Bernetteb. 1920BRBrazilian pianist and music teacher of American origin
- Yara Chōsukeb. 1952JPJapanese politician
- Yara Martinezb. 1979USAmerican actress
- Yara Sofiab. 1984USPuerto Rican drag queen
- Yara Lasantab. 1986USPuerto Rican beauty pageant contestant
- Yara Naoumb. 1987EGEgyptian beauty pageant winner
- Yara van Kerkhofb. 1990NLDutch short track speed skater
- Yara Charryb. 1997FRFrench-Brazilian actress
- Yara Shahidib. 2000USAmerican actress
- Yara Veytactress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 90 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 43K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 43K | #629 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 26K | #1,189 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 4.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 225 | #629 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Yara mean, and where does it come from?
- Del tupí iara, ‘señora’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Yara a male or female name?
- Yara is a female 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.
- In which country does Yara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Yara in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yara.
- How common is the name Yara?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 43,024 people named Yara in 2022, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Yara compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Yara is the 157th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yaraThe 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, “Yara” — the 157th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.