Kara
Kara is ranked 988th among girls in 2024 (261 births). Its best rank was 95th, in 1984, 1988.
- Rank in 2024
- #988down 49 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2610.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19913,280 births
- Best rank
- #95first in 1984
- Since 1896
- 101,514people given the name
The story in the numbers
101,514 girls have been named Kara in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 3,280 births — 0.17% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 440 → 988).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 27%. It has spent 67 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 3 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Kara | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 7 | |
| 1930s | 81 | |
| 1940s | 221 | |
| 1950s | 743 | |
| 1960s | 7,040 | |
| 1970s | 19,760 | |
| 1980s | 27,507 | |
| 1990s | 23,513 | |
| 2000s | 13,490 | |
| 2010s | 7,485 | |
| 2020s | 1,662 |
In 1991, its biggest year
Kara was the 106th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1991 were Ashley, Jessica, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Kara
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Griseldapeak 1993
- Jaymipeak 1985
- Rashellepeak 1989
- Cristinapeak 1990
- Erikapeak 1990
- Korinpeak 1978
- Jameepeak 1985
- Tabithapeak 1978
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.