Yanira
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yanira is a given name, most frequently recorded in El Salvador, where it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hebrew: he answers.
- SVEl Salvador1 in 484◐
- HNHonduras1 in 4.3K
- VEVenezuela1 in 5.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈15K ●
- Sources
- 245 ●
- 1 in 6.4K ◐
across 6 countries
165K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin●
Hebrew: he answers
Sources 1
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Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV El Salvador | #58 | 55,997 | 48K rec. | — | — | Yanira | 39 |
| VE Venezuela | #706 | 33,664 | 14K rec. | — | 3.9K | Yanira | 35 |
| PE Peru | — | 18,267 | 12K rec. | — | — | Yanira | 49 |
| MX Mexico | — | 14,925 | 11K rec. | — | 59 | Yanira | 104 |
| CL Chile | #567 | 12,224 | 1K rec. | — | 2 | Yanira | 59 |
| ES Spain | #651 | 7,836 | 6.6K rec. | 1 in 6.4K | 7.8K | Yanira | 100 |
| US United States | — | 7,261 | 47K rec. | 1 in 46K | 7.3K | Yanira | 245 |
| CO Colombia | #661 | 6,481 | 2.6K rec. | — | 4 | Yanira | 57 |
| AR Argentina | — | 5,703 | 3.7K rec. | — | 4 | Yanira | 41 |
| HN Honduras | #223 | 4,257 | 4.2K rec. | — | — | Yanira | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 765 | 1K rec. | — | — | Yanira | 23 |
| CA Canada | — | 358 | 923 rec. | — | — | Yanira | 26 |
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Languages●
- Spanish199K74%
- English36K13%
- Catalan7.8K3%
- 4.7K2%
- Portuguese2.5K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 199,387 | 74% |
| English | 36,211 | 13% |
| Catalan | 7,836 | 3% |
| 4,678 | 2% | |
| Portuguese | 2,486 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Yanira 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 Hebrew, He Answers
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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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1943 | 1 |
| 1945 | 3 |
| 1946 | 1 |
| 1947 | 4 |
| 1948 | 1 |
| 1950 | 1 |
| 1951 | 2 |
| 1952 | 4 |
| 1954 | 2 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 3 |
| 1957 | 4 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 4 |
| 1960 | 18 |
| 1961 | 27 |
| 1962 | 30 |
| 1963 | 20 |
| 1964 | 19 |
| 1965 | 19 |
| 1966 | 29 |
| 1967 | 24 |
| 1968 | 28 |
| 1969 | 30 |
| 1970 | 26 |
| 1971 | 32 |
| 1972 | 40 |
| 1973 | 31 |
| 1974 | 46 |
| 1975 | 41 |
| 1976 | 25 |
| 1977 | 34 |
| 1978 | 39 |
| 1979 | 41 |
| 1980 | 41 |
| 1981 | 39 |
| 1982 | 41 |
| 1983 | 58 |
| 1984 | 50 |
| 1985 | 49 |
| 1986 | 59 |
| 1987 | 59 |
| 1988 | 80 |
| 1989 | 76 |
| 1990 | 100 |
| 1991 | 113 |
| 1992 | 129 |
| 1993 | 150 |
| 1994 | 134 |
| 1995 | 141 |
| 1996 | 141 |
| 1997 | 107 |
| 1998 | 108 |
| 1999 | 116 |
| 2000 | 88 |
| 2001 | 81 |
| 2002 | 89 |
| 2003 | 81 |
| 2004 | 90 |
| 2005 | 65 |
| 2006 | 63 |
| 2007 | 68 |
| 2008 | 47 |
| 2009 | 57 |
| 2010 | 45 |
| 2011 | 49 |
| 2012 | 37 |
| 2013 | 23 |
| 2014 | 26 |
| 2015 | 14 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 4 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 2 |
CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 76 years between 1943–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Patricia Rivasb. 1980SVnot in their usual nameSalvadoran sport shooter
- Yanira Moralesb. 1982USPuerto Rican amateur wrestler
- Yanira Medina Cazorlab. 1985EScanarian writer
- Yanira Vigoa Apechecheb. 1987USchess player
- Yanira Moránb. 1997ESSpanish association football player
- Yanira Díaz-Floresb. 2000ESSpanish association football player
- Yanira GurrolaUSAmerican politician
- Yanira De La GuardiaESSpanish association football player
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 39 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.8K | #645 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.7K | #334 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.3K | #3,046 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 3.9K | #439 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 774 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 261 | #1,252 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1993 | 150 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1996 | 141 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1995 | 141 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1994 | 134 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1992 | 129 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 123 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 393 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yanira?
- We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Yanira (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yanira have the most bearers?
- Yanira is most frequently recorded in El Salvador, where it is most often spelled yanira.
- How common is Yanira compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Yanira is the 58th most common given name of 22,150 given names recorded there.
- Is Yanira a male or female name?
- Yanira 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.
- What does the name Yanira mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hebrew: he answers
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yanira” — the 58th most common given name in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.