Yair

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Yair is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Hebrew יַאִיר, meaning "he will light up".

rarermore common
  • PAPanama1 in 3.9K◐
  • COColombia1 in 3.9K
  • MXMexico1 in 7.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈5.0K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
158 ●

84K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 66K ◐

Costa Rica

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ýair in TM Turkmenistan.

Meaning & origin●

Transliteration of Hebrew יַאִיר, meaning "he will light up".

Sources 1

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Yair is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#67867,43833K rec.—283Yair58
MX Mexico#61343,72829K rec.—41Yair158
CO Colombia#37915,7746.2K rec.—5Yair77
PE Peru—9,7094.8K rec.——Yair46
US United States—4,3413.4K rec.1 in 77K4.3KYair148
VE Venezuela—3,4932.3K rec.—558Yair25
PA Panama#1731,8561.8K rec.—2Yair23
CL Chile—1,519208 rec.—22Yair37
UY Uruguay#719685520 rec.—5Yair12
PL Poland—207—1 in 185K207——
ES Spain—196306 rec.1 in 255K196Yair56
IL Israel—188293 rec.——Yair38

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish149K83%
  • English9K5%
  • Hebrew8.1K5%
  • Lao1.6K1%
  • Burmese1.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish148,71683%
English9,0055%
Hebrew8,1095%
Lao1,5641%
Burmese1,4571%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Yair is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name13K records spelled Yair17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, France, Venezuela

    Languages: English, French, German

    Also written Yaïr, Yäïř, Ŷaîr, Ýăîř, Yaîr

  • Hebrew given name11K records spelled Yair13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Iran, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hebrew, Arabic

    Also written יאיר, יעיר, Ya'Ir, Jair, Yaïr

  • Lao given name1.8K records spelled Yair13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Peru, Israel

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written แยร์, แยรู, Ÿäîř, Yaír, Yåïr

  • Burmese given name1.7K records spelled Yair76 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma), Israel, Peru

    Also written Ýair, Yaiř, Ÿair, Yăîř, Yâîř

  • Polish given name926 records spelled Yair2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Israel

    Also written Yaïr

  • a separate given name921 records spelled Yair3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Yaïr, Yaír

  • Hindi given name585 records spelled Yair3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Yaïr

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

010203040196019802000202036 · 2009

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Yair in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1951–2021
Yearrecords
19511
19531
19601
19631
19641
19661
19673
19682
19722
19731
19752
19761
19772
19787
19801
19815
19821
19837
19841
19857
19865
19875
19886
19899
19908
19915
199210
199310
19949
19958
19966
199711
199810
199916
200018
200111
20029
200318
200416
200526
200615
200725
200823
200936
201031
201121
201230
201311
201422
201527
201622
201722
201823
201923
202027
202122

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 56 years between 1951–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Yair Tzaban, b. 1930Yair Hoffman, b. 1937Yair Levy, b. 1952Yair Golan, b. 1962Yair Lapid, b. 1963Yair Qedar, b. 1969Yair Netanyahu, b. 1991Yair Rodríguez, b. 1992Yair Koas, b. 1997
  • 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).

Evidence●

Attested in 48 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Yair
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.3K#4,320
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20141.1K#289
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2013951#313
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2012884#318
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2015870#322
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2016758#330
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2017700#345
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—696—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2018672#356
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—558#2,483
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024283#412
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026207#1,258

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 2026-09-12 data build · 366 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yair?
We estimate roughly 5.0 thousand people bear Yair (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Yair have the most bearers?
Yair is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled yair.
How common is Yair compared with other names?
In Argentina, Yair is the 678th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
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 does the name Yair mean?
Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Hebrew יַאִיר, meaning "he will light up".
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 678th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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