Tarrah
Tarrah was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 1,074 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Tarrah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 34 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tarrah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tarrah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,607, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
128 babies in 1977, the peak
Tarrah peaked in 1977, when 128 girls were given it, #1,040 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #18,607 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,955 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,776 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,076 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,423 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,995 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,224 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,520 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,542 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,789 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 18 | #6,291 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,769 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,663 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,064 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,840 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,563 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,497 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 20 | #5,000 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,370 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,453 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,629 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,889 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,647 | 23.3 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,529 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,392 | 25.3 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,673 | 21.6 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,352 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,905 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,546 | 21.5 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,181 | 27.8 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,444 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,803 | 36.7 |
| 1979 | 71 | #1,602 | 44.2 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,913 | 33.9 |
| 1977 | 128 | #1,040 | 83.5 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,855 | 18.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,436 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,599 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,318 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,491 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,480 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tarrah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tarrah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tarrah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tarrah, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,074 Americans ever recorded as Tarrah. The median Tarrah alive today is 41 years old; half are between 34 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 983 people named Tarrah (981 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,047 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 352 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 518 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 158 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
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).
How common is the spelling Tarrah?
Tarrah is a less common spelling of Tara: SSA has recorded 1,074 Tarrah and 176,355 Tara since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 187,948 babies since 1880, Tarrah is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 365 babies recorded by SSA was a Tarrah (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 Tarrah
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 Tarrah and names like it
- Compare Tarrah and TaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTarrah peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tarrah since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Tarrah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tarrah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.