Jatara — girls' name
185 babies named Jatara in U.S. Social Security records since 1985, with the highest year being 1987. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Jatara was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Jatara in 1987 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jatara
The Social Security Administration has registered 185 babies named Jatara between 1985 and 2009, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jatara currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jatara performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 76 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Jatara shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jatara in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jatara 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 185 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.
Jatara at a glance
Last recorded 2009Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jatara popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–1985
- Peak year (1987)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2009.
185 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1987 with 21 births in a single year.
Jatara by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 76 births that decade — 41% of Jatara's all-time total
Jatara decade highlights
- Peak decade 76 births
- Runner-up 67 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Jatara's strongest decade
76 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Jatara by state
Where Jatara concentrates geographically — total births since 1985
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 19 | 10.3% |
19 of 185 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 10.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 10.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1985–2009 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.