Jara
Jara was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,118 among girls’ names; 860 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jara?
#9,118 among girls’ names, 2025
Jara rose from #13,602 in 2015 to #9,118 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 6.8 per million.
25 babies in 2006, the peak
Jara peaked in 2006, when 25 girls were given it, #5,448 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,118 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,547 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,260 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,305 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,747 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,193 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,533 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,024 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,079 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,500 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,602 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,672 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,863 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,999 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,950 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,927 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,101 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,667 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,973 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,448 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,276 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,908 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,299 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,750 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,448 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,211 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,306 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,497 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,025 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,654 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,395 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,329 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,294 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,123 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,880 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,424 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,289 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,547 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,545 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,678 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,558 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,056 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,009 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,412 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,781 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,445 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,106 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,829 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,751 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,857 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,966 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,936 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,846 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,321 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,746 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,494 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,839 | 5.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,195 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jara, and how old are they?
An estimated 838 Americans named Jara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 20 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 878 people named Jara (811 women and girls, 67 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 788 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5,182 babies since 1880, Jara is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 101 babies (11%), the fifth 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 Jara
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 Jara and names like it
- Compare Jara and JariahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJara peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jara.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jara alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.