Ara — #3113 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ara

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,517 babies named Ara between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ara currently holds the #3113 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 78 babies received it in a single year. Ara is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,291 additional births since 1893.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ara performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 488 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ara shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 217 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Ara in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ara in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,517 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.