Nara
Nara was given to 72 girls in 2025, #2,476 among girls’ names; 1,069 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Nara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nara mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Nara is “a female given name”
/ˈna.ɾɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nara?
#2,476 among girls’ names, 2025
Nara rose from #3,639 in 2015 to #2,476 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 24.1 to 44.8 per million.
72 babies in 2024, the peak
Nara peaked in 2024, when 72 girls were given it, #2,503 among girls’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,476 | 44.8 |
| 2024 | 72 | #2,503 | 44.4 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,894 | 24.3 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,455 | 28.0 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,285 | 29.9 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,982 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,597 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,545 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,533 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,811 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,639 | 24.1 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,737 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,952 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,273 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,316 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,784 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,841 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,296 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,640 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,750 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,792 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,100 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,899 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,286 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,569 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,468 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,621 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,822 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,375 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,413 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,213 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,354 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,149 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,948 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,000 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,847 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,003 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,487 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,180 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,357 | 5.2 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,804 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,787 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,936 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,791 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,244 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,688 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,889 | 6.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,658 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,040 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,388 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,300 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,278 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,814 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,639 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,276 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,799 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,876 | 2.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,680 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,395 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,546 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,921 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,106 | 6.1 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,447 | 14.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,069 Americans recorded as Nara, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 72 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nara, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,069 Americans ever recorded as Nara. The median Nara alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,592 people named Nara (1,354 women and girls, 238 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 719 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 89 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 111 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 235 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 571 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nara born?
The states with the most babies named Nara are California, New York and Texas, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,718 | 1.3× |
| New York | 7 | #1,781 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,842 | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,614 | 0.1× |
Where Nara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nara is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nara with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,976 babies since 1880, Nara is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 446 babies (16%), the third 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 Nara
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 Nara and names like it
- Compare Nara and NariahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNara peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nara since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Nara: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Nara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.