Tara
Tara is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 247 births. Its best rank was 35th, in 1977.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2470.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19727,234 births
- Best rank
- #35in 1977
- Since 1939
- 175,490people given the name
The story in the numbers
175,490 girls have been named Tara in the United States since 1939, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 7,234 births — 0.48% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 247 births in 2024, against 7,234 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1970s alone account for 37%. It has spent 68 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 21 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tara | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 7 | |
| 1940s | 392 | |
| 1950s | 3,175 | |
| 1960s | 14,543 | |
| 1970s | 65,072 | |
| 1980s | 56,340 | |
| 1990s | 23,371 | |
| 2000s | 8,572 | |
| 2010s | 2,910 | |
| 2020s | 1,108 |
In 1972, its biggest year
Tara was the 38th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1972 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1972.
Names that rose and fell with Tara
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Catrinapeak 1980
- Jennifferpeak 1972
- Tarrapeak 1972
- Laticiapeak 1971
- Niccolepeak 1972
- Quintinapeak 1976
- Shawnapeak 1977
- Jenneferpeak 1972
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.