Carra — girls' name
1,353 babies named Carra in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
16% of everyone ever named Carra was born in this single decade.
28 babies were named Carra in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Carra
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,353 babies named Carra between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 28 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Carra performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 211 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Carra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Carra in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Carra 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 1,353 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.
Carra at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Carra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1880
- Peak year (1993)
- 28
- Annual births at peak — across 144 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
1,353 total births across 144 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 28 births in a single year.
Carra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 211 births that decade — 16% of Carra's all-time total
Carra decade highlights
- Peak decade 211 births
- Runner-up 203 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Carra's strongest decade
211 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 16% of all-time use.
Carra by state
Where Carra concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
Top 5 states
- Texas 0.7% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 0.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.