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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Dara

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#1,129

down −95 places

2025 births

207

down −37 births

All-time births

13,692

2% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1981
453 births
Best rank
#469
in 1981
First recorded
1893
#1,481 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1984
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
113 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1981453#469Peak
  2. 1980431#486
  3. 1982321#572
  4. 1969310#562
  5. 1971307#572

Rank over time

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

Best rank #469 in 1981 · peak births 453 in 1981

Boys and girls

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

● 6% boys■ 94% girls

855 boys · 13,692 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 Dara has ranked, decade by decade

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