Dare — unisex name

What the Data Says About Dare

The Social Security Administration has registered 65 babies named Dare between 1916 and 1979, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dare currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1979. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Dare is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 63 additional births since 1921.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dare performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 13 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Dare shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dare 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 65 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.