Meaning not yet researched.
Tarah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #660 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #660 in 1983; #14,757 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tarah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,757 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #660.
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Tarah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #660 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 267 (1985).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Tarah, making it the 14,757th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,731 places from #11,026 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 9 girls named Tarah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #660, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 267, in 1985. For comparison, it was #6,435 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tarah in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 5 babies. In all, 4,737 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,182 babies named Tarah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 104 US girls were named Tarah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tara (176,355 babies since 1880) and Tarra (2,295 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tahirah 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tahirah (930).
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 Tarah in the open dataset we use.
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 | 6 | #14,757 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,026 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,002 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,154 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,441 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,481 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,559 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,755 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,412 | — | — |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,880 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,435 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,603 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,343 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,360 | — | — |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,903 | — | — |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,233 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,078 | — | — |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,997 | — | — |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,084 | — | — |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,847 | — | — |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,456 | — | — |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,770 | — | — |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,457 | — | — |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,631 | — | — |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1998 | 75 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1996 | 100 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1995 | 95 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1994 | 130 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1993 | 126 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1992 | 125 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1991 | 152 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1990 | 184 | #996 | — | — |
| 1989 | 196 | #921 | — | — |
| 1988 | 212 | #850 | — | — |
| 1987 | 196 | #872 | — | — |
| 1986 | 188 | #884 | — | — |
| 1985 | 267 | #678 | — | — |
| 1984 | 265 | #662 | — | — |
| 1983 | 262 | #660 | — | — |
| 1982 | 205 | #790 | — | — |
| 1981 | 212 | #772 | — | — |
| 1980 | 179 | #861 | — | — |
| 1979 | 117 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1978 | 133 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1977 | 145 | #958 | — | — |
| 1976 | 80 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,702 | — | — |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,943 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,181 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,504 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,692 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,534 | — | — |
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).