Yara

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled ยุรา in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

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◐

Yara is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name96K records spelled Yara22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Netherlands, United States, Germany

  Languages: English, Western Frisian, Dutch

  Also written Yärä, Yårä, Yãrã, Ýãrã, Ýara

• Hindi given name11K records spelled Yara21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Spain, Bangladesh, United States

  Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Odia

  Also written Jara, Jaara, য়ারা, Janra, যারা

• Turkish given name2.4K records spelled Yara13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Iraq

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

  Also written Ýara, Yårå, Ÿāra, Yärä, Yặrặ

• a separate given name2.3K records spelled Yara4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Lebanon, Netherlands

  Also written Yára, Yāra, Yará

• Norwegian Bokmål given name1.5K records spelled Yara7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Ÿàrá, Ÿärâ, Yärä

60 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●

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 name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• Amica

  as a name·Il 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 word·kurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

• In Turkish, wound, injury

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In crh, scar, wound

  as a word·kaikki.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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 78 years between 1909–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 796 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yara?

We estimate roughly 56 thousand people bear Yara (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Yara have the most bearers?

We estimate about 43 thousand people bear Yara in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yara.

How common is Yara compared with other names?

In Brazil, Yara is the 748th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

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.

What does the name Yara mean?

Recorded meaning: Del tupí iara, ‘señora’.