Yahir is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Yahir isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Yahir ranks 659. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Yahir. In the entire USA, approximately 10,668 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Yahir. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
The name Yahir is of Arabic origin and has a few possible meanings. One is ‘he who gives light’ or ‘he who illuminates,’ which is derived from the Arabic word ‘nur’ meaning ‘light.’ Another possible meaning is ‘he who remembers’ or ‘he who is remembered,’ which is derived from the Arabic word ‘dhikr’ meaning ‘remembrance’ or ‘memory’.
Yahir is a... name with positive connotations that probably gained popularity in the US because of the singer Yahir Othón Parra.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.7% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Yahir is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.7% of all boys’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common boys’ name that starts with Y is Yahir.
If your name is Yahir and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yahir, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Apple
Hat
Igloo
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yahir
Yahir
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
A
H
I
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
A
H
I
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yahir sounds like this:
