Yair is a male first name.
Yair is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1107 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,106 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yair.
Yair is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Yair cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #666 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2006. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Yair, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Yair seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yair was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
135 babies were named Yair in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,195,748 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Yair ranked 1,257 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Yair, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to men and boys named Yair. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Yair living in one state or another. If your name is Yair and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Nevada, which has the most people named Yair relative to the population, you still have to ask 14,887 men and boys their names before you hear Yair as an answer just once.
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 four letters, the name Yair is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Yair 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 Yair, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Apple
Igloo
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yair
Yair
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
A
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
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. Yair sounds like this:
