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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Kara

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#1,075

down −83 places

2025 births

226

down −35 births

All-time births

101,743

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1991
3,281 births
Best rank
#95
in 1984
First recorded
1896
#1,713 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1989
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
97 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19913,281#106Peak
  2. 19893,121#101
  3. 19883,039#95
  4. 19903,036#110
  5. 19922,931#114

Rank over time

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

Best rank #95 in 1984 · peak births 3,281 in 1991

Boys and girls

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

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

282 boys · 101,743 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 Kara has ranked, decade by decade

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