Ketara — girls' name

What the Data Says About Ketara

The Social Security Administration has registered 74 babies named Ketara between 1988 and 2002, spanning 15 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ketara currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 31 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ketara performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 63 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Ketara shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ketara in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ketara 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 74 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.