Mara — #588 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Mara

The Social Security Administration has registered 23,535 babies named Mara between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mara currently holds the #588 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 568 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mara performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 4,038 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Mara shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,393 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Mara in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mara 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 23,535 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.