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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ara

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#3,255

down −130 places

2025 births

48

down −3 births

All-time births

3,565

1% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2022
78 births
Best rank
#481
in 1884
First recorded
1880
#744 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1960
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 202278#2,365Peak
  2. 202175#2,387
  3. 201762#2,750
  4. 201862#2,752
  5. 201255#3,045

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #481 in 1884 · peak births 78 in 2022

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 27% boys■ 73% girls

1,301 boys · 3,565 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ara has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.