Ara
Ara is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 51 births. Its best rank was 481st, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 510.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 202278 births
- Best rank
- #481in 1884
- Since 1880
- 4,808people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,517 girls have been named Ara in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 78 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 2010s alone account for 14%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Ara is used for both sexes: 27% of its bearers are boys (1,291), most of them born around 1975.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ara | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 141 | |
| 1890s | 195 | |
| 1900s | 215 | |
| 1910s | 375 | |
| 1920s | 389 | |
| 1930s | 224 | |
| 1940s | 162 | |
| 1950s | 105 | |
| 1960s | 119 | |
| 1970s | 190 | |
| 1980s | 228 | |
| 1990s | 141 | |
| 2000s | 234 | |
| 2010s | 488 | |
| 2020s | 311 |
In 2022, its biggest year
Ara was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2022 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2022.
Names that rose and fell with Ara
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laviniapeak 1921
- Evapeak 1918
- Leoniepeak 2024
- Zorapeak 2019
- Adeliapeak 2017
- Olivepeak 2022
- Lenapeak 1917
- Malliepeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.