Dara
Dara is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 244 births. Its best rank was 470th, in 1981.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2440.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 1981453 births
- Best rank
- #470in 1981
- Since 1893
- 14,291people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,484 girls have been named Dara in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1981, with 453 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1981, and the 1980s alone account for 22%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 807 boys have also been given it, 5.6% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dara | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 11 | |
| 1910s | 54 | |
| 1920s | 85 | |
| 1930s | 46 | |
| 1940s | 212 | |
| 1950s | 971 | |
| 1960s | 1,840 | |
| 1970s | 2,649 | |
| 1980s | 2,905 | |
| 1990s | 1,808 | |
| 2000s | 1,078 | |
| 2010s | 1,023 | |
| 2020s | 797 |
In 1981, its biggest year
Dara was the 470th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1981 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1981.
Names that rose and fell with Dara
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jacintapeak 1982
- Aprylpeak 1981
- Andreapeak 1981
- Holleypeak 1984
- Jannapeak 1979
- Hollypeak 1983
- Lindipeak 1983
- Kevapeak 1974
Other spellings in the data
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.