Dearra
Dearra was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,683 among girls’ names; 488 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dearra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dearra?
#4,683 among girls’ names, 2025
Dearra entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #4,683 in 2025.
75 babies in 2021, the peak
Dearra peaked in 2021, when 75 girls were given it, #2,392 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,683 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,351 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,149 | 32.4 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,905 | 35.4 |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,392 | 45.7 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,560 | 26.0 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,943 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,744 | 23.5 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,790 | 23.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,152 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #12,535 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,952 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,325 | 5.5 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,026 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,214 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,282 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,159 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,141 | 3.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,867 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dearra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dearra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dearra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dearra, and how old are they?
An estimated 484 Americans named Dearra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 187 people named Dearra (180 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 194 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,935 babies since 1880, Dearra is the sixth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 37 babies (78%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dearra
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dearra and names like it
- Compare Dearra and DeidraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDearra peaked in 2021.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dearra since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Dearra.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dearra alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.