Tarrah — girls' name
1,074 babies named Tarrah in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1977. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Tarrah was born in this single decade.
128 babies were named Tarrah in 1977 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tarrah
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,074 babies named Tarrah between 1971 and 2016, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tarrah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 128 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tarrah performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 425 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tarrah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 64 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Tarrah in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tarrah 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 1,074 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.
Tarrah at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tarrah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1971
- Peak year (1977)
- 128
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
1,074 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1977 with 128 births in a single year.
Tarrah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 425 births that decade — 40% of Tarrah's all-time total
Tarrah decade highlights
- Peak decade 425 births
- Runner-up 309 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Tarrah's strongest decade
425 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Tarrah by state
Where Tarrah concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 64 | 6.0% |
| #2 | Texas | | 21 | 2.0% |
| #3 | Pennsylvania | | 17 | 1.6% |
| #4 | New York | | 15 | 1.4% |
| #5 | Michigan | | 13 | 1.2% |
| #6 | Colorado | | 6 | 0.6% |
| #7 | Florida | | 6 | 0.6% |
| #8 | Ohio | | 6 | 0.6% |
64 of 1,074 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 10 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 6.0% of nationwide
- Texas 2.0% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 1.6% of nationwide
- New York 1.4% of nationwide
- Michigan 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 10 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Tarrah appears in 10 states. Explore state details →
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.