Dara — #1029 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Dara

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,484 babies named Dara between 1893 and 2024, spanning 132 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dara currently holds the #1029 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 453 babies received it in a single year. Dara is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 807 additional births since 1955.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dara performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 2,905 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Dara shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,549 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Dara in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dara 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 13,484 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.