Karah
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #10,271
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 131 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,274since 1970
Karah over time
Rank among girls' names. Karah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 |
| 2017 | #3,996 | 37 |
| 2016 | #3,464 | 45 |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 |
| 2014 | #2,922 | 58 |
| 2013 | #2,769 | 62 |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 |
| 2011 | #2,725 | 64 |
| 2010 | #2,313 | 82 |
| 2009 | #2,396 | 80 |
| 2008 | #2,078 | 98 |
| 2007 | #2,198 | 90 |
| 2006 | #1,709 | 122 |
| 2005 | #1,933 | 99 |
| 2004 | #1,795 | 106 |
| 2003 | #1,590 | 121 |
| 2002 | #1,791 | 100 |
| 2001 | #1,833 | 96 |
| 2000 | #1,412 | 131 |
| 1999 | #1,502 | 114 |
| 1998 | #1,734 | 91 |
| 1997 | #1,419 | 117 |
| 1996 | #1,736 | 86 |
| 1995 | #1,730 | 84 |
| 1994 | #1,757 | 83 |
| 1993 | #1,611 | 94 |
| 1992 | #1,588 | 97 |
| 1991 | #1,857 | 76 |
| 1990 | #1,701 | 86 |
| 1989 | #1,733 | 78 |
| 1988 | #1,614 | 80 |
| 1987 | #1,880 | 61 |
| 1986 | #1,785 | 64 |
| 1985 | #2,222 | 46 |
| 1984 | #1,771 | 61 |
| 1983 | #1,770 | 60 |
| 1982 | #2,369 | 41 |
| 1981 | #2,657 | 34 |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 |
| 1979 | #2,525 | 36 |
| 1978 | #2,572 | 33 |
| 1977 | #1,922 | 51 |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karah! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Karah
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2000 at #1,412 (131 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,863 girls born in 2000 were named Karah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 180,021 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 31.9% of all girls named Karah (1,043) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 174 | #1,922 (1977) | #4,522 |
| 1980s | 562 | #1,614 (1988) | #2,034 |
| 1990s | 928 | #1,419 (1997) | #1,664 |
| 2000s | 1,043 | #1,412 (2000) | #1,874 |
| 2010s | 501 | #2,313 (2010) | #3,454 |
| 2020s | 66 | #5,667 (2020) | #8,372 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Karah in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
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1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 14,878 of them was named Karah, which outranked 91.2% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,412Natalee118
- #1,412Noor118
- #1,412Tatiyana118
- #1,419Karah117
- #1,419Bethanie117
- #1,419Jamila117
- #1,419Jesica117
- #1,434Anisha116
- #1,434Chrystal116
- #1,434Jackelyn116
Tied with 14 names at #1,419; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.