Meaning not yet researched.
Dara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 207 in 2025. Its best rank was #469 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #469 in 1981; #1,129 in 2025. About 81% of babies named Dara in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,129 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #469.
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Dara: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 207 girls in 2025. Peak: #469 in 1981 · most girls in one year: 453 (1981).
In 2025, 207 US girls were named Dara, making it the 1,129th most common girls’ name of the year, down 95 places from #1,034 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 244 girls named Dara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #469, reached in 1981. That year also had the most girls given the name: 453. For comparison, it was #2,721 in 2015 and #1,225 in 1950.
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Dara, making it the 2,686th most common boys’ name of the year, up 850 places from #3,536 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 32 boys named Dara in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,623, reached in 1985. The most boys given the name in a single year was 48, in 2025. For comparison, it was #8,188 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dara in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 5 babies. In all, 14,547 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,090 babies named Dara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,618 US girls were named Dara; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 244. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,765 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dara ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #628 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dora (106,480 babies since 1880), Daria (9,068 babies since 1880), Dayra (1,365 babies since 1880) and Daira (1,332 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darah, Darrah and Dari are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Darah (1,085), Darrah (820), Dari (736), Darra (510), Daray (66), Dahira (37), Darae (18), Dairra (10), Daraya (10), Daiara (6).
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.
No nicknames listed for Dara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 12 | #628 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #678 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #784 | — |
| New York | 20 | #799 | #1,406 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #802 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #805 | — |
| North Carolina | 10 | #919 | — |
| Florida | 17 | #922 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #942 | — |
| California | 29 | #955 | #1,752 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,084 | — |
| Texas | 24 | #1,129 | #2,650 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,171 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,416 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,442 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 207 | #1,129 | 48 | #2,686 |
| 2024 | 244 | #1,034 | 32 | #3,536 |
| 2023 | 107 | #1,868 | 29 | #3,815 |
| 2022 | 148 | #1,480 | 38 | #3,170 |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,587 | 34 | #3,376 |
| 2020 | 166 | #1,329 | 29 | #3,666 |
| 2019 | 227 | #1,094 | 16 | #5,624 |
| 2018 | 206 | #1,171 | 20 | #4,783 |
| 2017 | 110 | #1,854 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,523 | 11 | #7,254 |
| 2015 | 65 | #2,721 | 9 | #8,188 |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,448 | 6 | #11,034 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,637 | 7 | #9,884 |
| 2012 | 74 | #2,480 | 6 | #11,103 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,182 | 7 | #9,857 |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,434 | 9 | #8,295 |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,169 | 6 | #11,301 |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,340 | 6 | #11,367 |
| 2007 | 81 | #2,353 | 9 | #8,324 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,331 | 11 | #7,014 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,971 | 9 | #7,770 |
| 2004 | 109 | #1,759 | 8 | #8,292 |
| 2003 | 115 | #1,669 | 20 | #4,142 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,646 | 7 | #8,652 |
| 2001 | 155 | #1,268 | 15 | #4,938 |
| 2000 | 153 | #1,271 | 21 | #3,801 |
| 1999 | 143 | #1,286 | 14 | #4,822 |
| 1998 | 162 | #1,162 | 16 | #4,240 |
| 1997 | 145 | #1,235 | 13 | #4,721 |
| 1996 | 152 | #1,191 | 17 | #3,860 |
| 1995 | 163 | #1,092 | 17 | #3,732 |
| 1994 | 171 | #1,062 | 28 | #2,634 |
| 1993 | 198 | #954 | 23 | #2,957 |
| 1992 | 220 | #895 | 21 | #3,131 |
| 1991 | 235 | #850 | 21 | #3,018 |
| 1990 | 219 | #884 | 19 | #3,195 |
| 1989 | 240 | #794 | 15 | #3,657 |
| 1988 | 240 | #784 | 24 | #2,453 |
| 1987 | 239 | #750 | 25 | #2,285 |
| 1986 | 228 | #759 | 24 | #2,310 |
| 1985 | 222 | #767 | 39 | #1,623 |
| 1984 | 277 | #636 | 10 | #3,987 |
| 1983 | 254 | #675 | 15 | #2,948 |
| 1982 | 321 | #572 | 11 | #3,746 |
| 1981 | 453 | #469 | 13 | #3,258 |
| 1980 | 431 | #486 | 9 | #4,216 |
| 1979 | 264 | #662 | — | — |
| 1978 | 285 | #598 | 6 | #5,193 |
| 1977 | 267 | #628 | 6 | #5,271 |
| 1976 | 254 | #616 | — | — |
| 1975 | 221 | #678 | — | — |
| 1974 | 254 | #612 | 6 | #4,744 |
| 1973 | 271 | #582 | — | — |
| 1972 | 248 | #626 | — | — |
| 1971 | 307 | #572 | 5 | #5,065 |
| 1970 | 279 | #617 | 8 | #3,581 |
| 1969 | 310 | #562 | — | — |
| 1968 | 233 | #632 | — | — |
| 1967 | 187 | #714 | — | — |
| 1966 | 194 | #703 | — | — |
| 1965 | 149 | #817 | — | — |
| 1964 | 158 | #833 | 6 | #3,691 |
| 1963 | 176 | #780 | — | — |
| 1962 | 151 | #861 | 5 | #4,178 |
| 1961 | 150 | #872 | 8 | #3,156 |
| 1960 | 132 | #928 | — | — |
| 1959 | 166 | #791 | — | — |
| 1958 | 130 | #898 | — | — |
| 1957 | 118 | #948 | — | — |
| 1956 | 132 | #870 | — | — |
| 1955 | 61 | #1,294 | 6 | #3,580 |
| 1954 | 85 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1953 | 76 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1952 | 77 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1951 | 69 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1950 | 57 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1949 | 51 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 1947 | 53 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,561 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,231 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,520 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,322 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,547 | — | — |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,409 | — | — |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,937 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,961 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,752 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,089 | — | — |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,435 | — | — |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,687 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,919 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,992 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,415 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,627 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,481 | — | — |
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).