Naarah
Naarah was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,038 among girls’ names; 238 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naarah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Naarah?
#7,038 among girls’ names, 2025
Naarah rose from #18,322 in 2015 to #7,038 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 10.0 per million.
23 babies in 2019, the peak
Naarah peaked in 2019, when 23 girls were given it, #5,563 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,038 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,055 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,106 | 6.2 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,926 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,043 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,563 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,169 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,409 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,322 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,652 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #14,175 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,005 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,961 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,312 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,434 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,389 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,146 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,041 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,340 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,177 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,847 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,124 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,466 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,994 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,974 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,768 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,894 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,719 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,769 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Naarah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naarah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naarah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naarah, and how old are they?
An estimated 235 Americans named Naarah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 209 people named Naarah (209 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 191 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Naarah?
Naarah is a less common spelling of Nara: SSA has recorded 238 Naarah and 1,069 Nara since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,598 babies since 1880, Naarah is the eighth most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 435 babies (3.7%), again the eighth most given.
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 Naarah
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 Naarah and names like it
- Compare Naarah and NaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNaarah peaked in 2019.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Naarah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Naarah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.