Takara
Takara was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,004 among girls’ names; 1,471 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Takara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takara?
#17,004 among girls’ names, 2025
Takara fell from #8,389 in 2015 to #17,004 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 3.1 per million.
78 babies in 1983, the peak
Takara peaked in 1983, when 78 girls were given it, #1,482 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,004 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,015 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,985 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,421 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,327 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,047 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,554 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,725 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,816 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,389 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 18 | #6,956 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 18 | #7,000 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,110 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,912 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,956 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,641 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,555 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,285 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,084 | 28.9 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,254 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,480 | 23.4 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,400 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,872 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,190 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,156 | 24.2 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,304 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,287 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,093 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,841 | 24.5 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,331 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,926 | 23.0 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,478 | 28.2 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,678 | 24.9 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,777 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,393 | 27.4 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,330 | 27.7 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,791 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,230 | 28.2 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,999 | 32.1 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,075 | 30.2 |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,940 | 32.1 |
| 1983 | 78 | #1,482 | 46.7 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,868 | 34.3 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,149 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,329 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,120 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,558 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,330 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,533 | 6.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,045 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Takara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Takara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Takara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takara, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,471 Americans ever recorded as Takara. The median Takara alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,219 people named Takara (1,197 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,410 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 47 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 733 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 528 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 133 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,669 babies since 1880, Takara is the most given (32% of them).
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 Takara
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 Takara and names like it
- Compare Takara and TakiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTakara peaked in 1983.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Takara since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Takara.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Takara alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.