Meaning not yet researched.
Ara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #481 in 1884.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #481 in 1884; #3,255 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Ara in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,255 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1884, at #481.
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Ara: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 girls in 2025. Peak: #481 in 1884 · most girls in one year: 78 (2022).
In 2025, 48 US girls were named Ara, making it the 3,255th most common girls’ name of the year, down 130 places from #3,125 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 51 girls named Ara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #481, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 78, in 2022. For comparison, it was #3,304 in 2015 and #2,915 in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Ara, making it the 7,714th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,497 places from #6,217 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 14 boys named Ara in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,041, reached in 1893. The most boys given the name in a single year was 34, in 1975. For comparison, it was #7,531 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ara in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 6 babies with the name. In all, 4,866 US babies have been given the name, 73% of them girls and 27% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 598 babies named Ara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 590 US girls were named Ara; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,485 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Aria (96,373 babies since 1880), Ira (62,535 babies since 1880), Ora (44,894 babies since 1880) and Era (6,009 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Araia, Arahi and Araea are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Arry and Belle.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Araia (118), Arahi (10), Araea (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Ara is listed as a nickname for Arabella, Arabelle.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,255 | 10 | #7,714 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,125 | 14 | #6,217 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,144 | 20 | #4,895 |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,365 | 9 | #8,361 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,387 | 18 | #5,127 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,933 | 17 | #5,246 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,006 | 16 | #5,568 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,752 | 12 | #6,732 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,750 | 17 | #5,308 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,105 | 13 | #6,381 |
| 2015 | 49 | #3,304 | 10 | #7,531 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,278 | 7 | #9,718 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,650 | 10 | #7,570 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,045 | 9 | #8,199 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,932 | 10 | #7,539 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,318 | 6 | #10,858 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,814 | 10 | #7,726 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,454 | 13 | #6,419 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,124 | 7 | #9,850 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,830 | 13 | #6,117 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,847 | 14 | #5,591 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,250 | 8 | #8,190 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,830 | 6 | #9,654 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,920 | 9 | #7,083 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,778 | 10 | #6,480 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,193 | 7 | #8,256 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,922 | 11 | #5,680 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,144 | 19 | #3,712 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,880 | 16 | #4,072 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,788 | 10 | #5,554 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,283 | 10 | #5,524 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,731 | 14 | #4,302 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,068 | 17 | #3,669 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,556 | 12 | #4,586 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,970 | 17 | #3,470 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,146 | 13 | #4,183 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,027 | 21 | #2,911 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,702 | 17 | #3,084 |
| 1987 | 21 | #3,993 | 10 | #4,257 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,655 | 16 | #3,012 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,737 | 21 | #2,431 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,331 | 15 | #2,965 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,960 | 19 | #2,497 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,183 | 11 | #3,700 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,148 | 18 | #2,575 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,513 | 27 | #2,004 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,447 | 21 | #2,314 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,203 | 29 | #1,798 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,769 | 21 | #2,207 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,548 | 28 | #1,783 |
| 1975 | 24 | #2,971 | 34 | #1,531 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,563 | 32 | #1,546 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,349 | 24 | #1,820 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,284 | 19 | #2,085 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,378 | 18 | #2,205 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,113 | 16 | #2,301 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,208 | 26 | #1,607 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,667 | 11 | #2,584 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,855 | 19 | #1,811 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,208 | 16 | #1,968 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,270 | 13 | #2,274 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,383 | 10 | #2,670 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,071 | 17 | #1,961 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,792 | 6 | #3,657 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,256 | 6 | #3,660 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,451 | 11 | #2,541 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,313 | 5 | #4,018 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,934 | 9 | #2,826 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,947 | 8 | #3,033 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,477 | 6 | #3,552 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,082 | — | — |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,894 | 6 | #3,465 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,489 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,493 | — | — |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,275 | 6 | #3,315 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,251 | — | — |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,095 | 6 | #3,195 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,205 | 7 | #2,872 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,257 | 6 | #3,243 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,828 | 5 | #3,588 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,537 | 7 | #2,883 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,884 | 5 | #3,501 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,631 | 5 | #3,546 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,665 | 15 | #1,841 |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,221 | 11 | #2,272 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,840 | 9 | #2,550 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,452 | 10 | #2,471 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,460 | 13 | #2,102 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,116 | 8 | #3,036 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,449 | 19 | #1,734 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,545 | 11 | #2,526 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,407 | 11 | #2,528 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,167 | 14 | #2,194 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,350 | 11 | #2,601 |
| 1924 | 50 | #1,110 | 6 | #3,892 |
| 1923 | 38 | #1,268 | 11 | #2,624 |
| 1922 | 38 | #1,272 | 9 | #3,027 |
| 1921 | 46 | #1,127 | 10 | #2,813 |
| 1920 | 51 | #1,039 | 8 | #3,223 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,195 | 9 | #2,889 |
| 1918 | 52 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1917 | 40 | #1,128 | 5 | #4,007 |
| 1916 | 47 | #1,005 | 5 | #3,925 |
| 1915 | 47 | #969 | 8 | #2,842 |
| 1914 | 40 | #932 | 9 | #2,278 |
| 1913 | 34 | #914 | 6 | #2,512 |
| 1912 | 30 | #920 | 6 | #2,288 |
| 1911 | 23 | #900 | — | — |
| 1910 | 23 | #896 | 5 | #1,601 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1908 | 25 | #769 | — | — |
| 1907 | 27 | #727 | — | — |
| 1906 | 18 | #873 | — | — |
| 1905 | 17 | #903 | — | — |
| 1904 | 18 | #854 | — | — |
| 1903 | 23 | #695 | — | — |
| 1902 | 20 | #774 | — | — |
| 1901 | 30 | #559 | — | — |
| 1900 | 25 | #726 | — | — |
| 1899 | 12 | #936 | — | — |
| 1898 | 25 | #651 | — | — |
| 1897 | 20 | #700 | — | — |
| 1896 | 21 | #688 | — | — |
| 1895 | 22 | #658 | — | — |
| 1894 | 15 | #785 | — | — |
| 1893 | 19 | #662 | 5 | #1,041 |
| 1892 | 21 | #617 | — | — |
| 1891 | 18 | #625 | — | — |
| 1890 | 22 | #558 | — | — |
| 1889 | 22 | #544 | — | — |
| 1888 | 20 | #560 | — | — |
| 1887 | 16 | #561 | — | — |
| 1886 | 17 | #541 | — | — |
| 1885 | 17 | #523 | — | — |
| 1884 | 18 | #481 | — | — |
| 1883 | 7 | #756 | — | — |
| 1882 | 10 | #597 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #628 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #744 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).