Nara is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Naira, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Nara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,447 in 1909.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,447 in 1909; #2,476 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,476 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1909, at #2,447.
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Nara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,447 in 1909 · most girls in one year: 72 (2025).
In 2025, 72 US girls were named Nara, making it the 2,476th most common girls’ name of the year, up 27 places from #2,503 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 72 girls named Nara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,447, reached in 1909. The most girls given the name in a single year was 72, in 2025. For comparison, it was #3,639 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nara in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 1,069 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 323 babies named Nara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 474 US girls were named Nara; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,323 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nara ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,614 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Naira (923 babies since 1880).
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 Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Nara 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,614 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,718 | #2,125 |
| New York | 7 | #1,781 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,842 | #3,161 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,896 | — | — |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,456 | — | — |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,285 | — | — |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,598 | — | — |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,546 | — | — |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,534 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,812 | — | — |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,639 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,739 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,955 | 5 | #13,454 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,276 | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,318 | — | — |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,787 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,843 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,299 | — | — |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,644 | — | — |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,752 | — | — |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,797 | — | — |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,105 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,904 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,292 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,576 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,476 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,628 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,829 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,381 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,418 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,218 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,360 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,156 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,955 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,006 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,853 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,008 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,492 | 7 | #5,900 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,185 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,360 | 5 | #7,259 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,806 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,788 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,938 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,793 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,245 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,690 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,891 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,659 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,042 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,390 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,301 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,280 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,816 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,640 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,278 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,801 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,878 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,682 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,397 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,548 | — | — |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,923 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,108 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,447 | — | — |
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).