Tara — #1020 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Tara

The Social Security Administration has registered 175,490 babies named Tara between 1939 and 2024, spanning 86 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tara currently holds the #1020 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 7,234 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tara performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 65,072 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Tara shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 16,879 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Tara in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tara 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 175,490 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.