Tarra
Tarra was last recorded in 2020, when 7 babies were given it; 2,295 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Tarra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 37 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tarra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tarra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,340, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
118 babies in 1972, the peak
Tarra peaked in 1972, when 118 girls were given it, #1,005 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | #13,340 | 4.3 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,347 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,356 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,696 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,560 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,085 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,292 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,341 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,057 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,896 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 11 | #9,612 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,101 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,548 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,768 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,195 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,334 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,601 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,291 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,658 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,868 | 23.5 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,717 | 24.9 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,725 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,234 | 31.5 |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,146 | 32.1 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,780 | 41.2 |
| 1988 | 74 | #1,733 | 41.6 |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,019 | 32.2 |
| 1986 | 77 | #1,569 | 44.9 |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,548 | 45.9 |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,474 | 46.9 |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,607 | 41.9 |
| 1982 | 66 | #1,718 | 39.0 |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,631 | 43.2 |
| 1980 | 74 | #1,580 | 44.6 |
| 1979 | 90 | #1,375 | 56.1 |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,452 | 52.2 |
| 1977 | 79 | #1,426 | 51.5 |
| 1976 | 77 | #1,393 | 52.6 |
| 1975 | 81 | #1,341 | 55.6 |
| 1974 | 69 | #1,463 | 47.0 |
| 1973 | 97 | #1,142 | 66.5 |
| 1972 | 118 | #1,005 | 77.6 |
| 1971 | 85 | #1,299 | 51.1 |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,387 | 43.5 |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,710 | 30.2 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,123 | 20.1 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,273 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,720 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,524 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,858 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,316 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,282 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,986 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,640 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,989 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,724 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,791 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,760 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tarra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tarra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tarra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tarra, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,295 Americans ever recorded as Tarra. The median Tarra alive today is 45 years old; half are between 37 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 2,078 people named Tarra (2,067 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,208 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 83 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 981 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 920 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 186 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13 |
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 Tarra born?
The states with the most babies named Tarra are California, New York and Michigan, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 136 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 86 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 74 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 70 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 53 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 33 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Tarra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Tarra?
Tarra is a less common spelling of Tara: SSA has recorded 2,295 Tarra and 176,355 Tara since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 189,865 babies since 1880, Tarra is the fourth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 361 babies recorded by SSA was a Tarra (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tarra
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 Tarra and names like it
- Compare Tarra and TaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTarra peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tarra since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Tarra.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tarra alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.