Meaning not yet researched.
Tara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 322 in 2025. Its best rank was #35 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #35 in 1977; #847 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#847 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #35.
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Tara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 322 girls in 2025. Peak: #35 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 7,234 (1972).
In 2025, 322 US girls were named Tara, making it the 847th most common girls’ name of the year, up 173 places from #1,020 in 2024. That is 73 more than the 249 girls named Tara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #35, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 7,234, in 1972. For comparison, it was #914 in 2015 and #884 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tara in 87 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1939 with 7 babies. In all, 176,355 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 65,324 babies named Tara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,465 US girls were named Tara; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 322. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,992 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tara ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #311 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tarah (4,737 babies since 1880) and Tarra (2,295 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tahira, Tarrah and Taira 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 Arabic and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tahira (1,298), Tarrah (1,074), Taira (1,022), Taura (433), Thara (302), Tahara (299), Tahra (147), Tayra (122), Taraya (122), Tarae (119), Taara (116), Taray (92), and more.
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 Tara 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 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 24 | #311 | — |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #476 | — |
| California | 65 | #515 | #671 |
| Illinois | 19 | #540 | #1,152 |
| Maryland | 9 | #597 | #771 |
| New York | 27 | #626 | #851 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #658 | #1,079 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #724 | — |
| Texas | 34 | #876 | #1,030 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #933 | #706 |
| Florida | 16 | #997 | #796 |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,050 | #1,101 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,171 | #719 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,259 | #966 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,347 | #958 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,608 | #786 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 322 | #847 | — | — |
| 2024 | 249 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 2023 | 208 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 2022 | 240 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 2021 | 212 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 2020 | 201 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 2019 | 257 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 2018 | 250 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 2017 | 265 | #984 | — | — |
| 2016 | 261 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 2015 | 301 | #914 | — | — |
| 2014 | 301 | #906 | — | — |
| 2013 | 282 | #909 | — | — |
| 2012 | 336 | #799 | — | — |
| 2011 | 303 | #864 | — | — |
| 2010 | 355 | #775 | — | — |
| 2009 | 425 | #690 | — | — |
| 2008 | 491 | #630 | — | — |
| 2007 | 581 | #538 | — | — |
| 2006 | 685 | #463 | — | — |
| 2005 | 929 | #341 | — | — |
| 2004 | 977 | #323 | — | — |
| 2003 | 927 | #336 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,060 | #295 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,159 | #273 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,338 | #239 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,393 | #231 | 5 | #11,410 |
| 1998 | 1,637 | #189 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,768 | #172 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,899 | #167 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,023 | #158 | — | — |
| 1994 | 2,185 | #148 | 9 | #6,305 |
| 1993 | 2,476 | #132 | — | — |
| 1992 | 2,837 | #118 | 10 | #5,598 |
| 1991 | 3,326 | #104 | 9 | #5,884 |
| 1990 | 3,826 | #85 | 18 | #3,446 |
| 1989 | 4,370 | #70 | 18 | #3,314 |
| 1988 | 4,606 | #67 | 19 | #2,943 |
| 1987 | 4,446 | #69 | 20 | #2,714 |
| 1986 | 5,085 | #56 | 20 | #2,677 |
| 1985 | 6,102 | #51 | 15 | #3,205 |
| 1984 | 6,284 | #49 | 14 | #3,255 |
| 1983 | 6,272 | #51 | 18 | #2,662 |
| 1982 | 6,524 | #47 | 28 | #1,988 |
| 1981 | 6,366 | #45 | 21 | #2,410 |
| 1980 | 6,283 | #43 | 27 | #2,048 |
| 1979 | 6,806 | #38 | 27 | #1,987 |
| 1978 | 6,330 | #40 | 28 | #1,867 |
| 1977 | 7,198 | #35 | 23 | #2,125 |
| 1976 | 6,020 | #42 | 33 | #1,642 |
| 1975 | 6,455 | #41 | 22 | #2,123 |
| 1974 | 6,657 | #39 | 25 | #1,881 |
| 1973 | 6,707 | #37 | 16 | #2,502 |
| 1972 | 7,234 | #38 | 34 | #1,469 |
| 1971 | 6,336 | #49 | 22 | #1,981 |
| 1970 | 5,329 | #69 | 22 | #1,934 |
| 1969 | 3,520 | #107 | 7 | #3,905 |
| 1968 | 2,186 | #147 | 8 | #3,337 |
| 1967 | 1,288 | #229 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,291 | #234 | 5 | #4,470 |
| 1965 | 1,168 | #250 | 5 | #4,369 |
| 1964 | 1,241 | #250 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,128 | #262 | 6 | #4,003 |
| 1962 | 1,094 | #270 | 9 | #3,019 |
| 1961 | 943 | #300 | — | — |
| 1960 | 684 | #367 | — | — |
| 1959 | 610 | #384 | — | — |
| 1958 | 467 | #441 | — | — |
| 1957 | 463 | #436 | — | — |
| 1956 | 452 | #432 | — | — |
| 1955 | 432 | #426 | — | — |
| 1954 | 259 | #556 | — | — |
| 1953 | 151 | #745 | — | — |
| 1952 | 140 | #754 | — | — |
| 1951 | 99 | #927 | — | — |
| 1950 | 102 | #884 | — | — |
| 1949 | 90 | #943 | — | — |
| 1948 | 73 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1946 | 56 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,745 | — | — |
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).