Jacara — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jacara

The Social Security Administration has registered 417 babies named Jacara between 1984 and 2017, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jacara currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 70 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jacara performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 211 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jacara shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jacara in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jacara 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 417 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.