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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Tara

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#847

up +173 places

2025 births

322

up +73 births

All-time births

175,812

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1972
7,234 births
Best rank
#35
in 1977
First recorded
1939
#3,745 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1981
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
87 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19727,234#38Peak
  2. 19777,198#35
  3. 19796,806#38
  4. 19736,707#37
  5. 19746,657#39

Rank over time

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

Best rank #35 in 1977 · peak births 7,234 in 1972

Boys and girls

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

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

543 boys · 175,812 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 Tara has ranked, decade by decade

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