Tarah
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 262 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,737since 1963
Tarah over time
Rank among girls' names. Tarah has never cracked the top 600 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 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 |
| 2011 | #4,807 | 29 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 |
| 2008 | #4,882 | 30 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 |
| 2006 | #3,795 | 40 |
| 2005 | #3,404 | 44 |
| 2004 | #3,265 | 46 |
| 2003 | #2,737 | 57 |
| 2002 | #3,394 | 40 |
| 2001 | #2,600 | 58 |
| 2000 | #2,593 | 57 |
| 1999 | #1,914 | 82 |
| 1998 | #1,992 | 75 |
| 1997 | #1,504 | 108 |
| 1996 | #1,571 | 100 |
| 1995 | #1,588 | 95 |
| 1994 | #1,304 | 130 |
| 1993 | #1,325 | 126 |
| 1992 | #1,340 | 125 |
| 1991 | #1,157 | 152 |
| 1990 | #994 | 184 |
| 1989 | #919 | 196 |
| 1988 | #848 | 212 |
| 1987 | #866 | 196 |
| 1986 | #879 | 188 |
| 1985 | #675 | 267 |
| 1984 | #660 | 265 |
| 1983 | #658 | 262 |
| 1982 | #789 | 205 |
| 1981 | #768 | 212 |
| 1980 | #859 | 179 |
| 1979 | #1,140 | 117 |
| 1978 | #1,025 | 133 |
| 1977 | #952 | 145 |
| 1976 | #1,343 | 80 |
| 1975 | #1,807 | 51 |
| 1974 | #1,913 | 45 |
| 1973 | #2,349 | 32 |
| 1972 | #1,946 | 42 |
| 1971 | #2,801 | 25 |
| 1970 | #3,577 | 17 |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tarah! It came in at #6,592, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Tarah
- 2,937 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #13,208)
- 4,255 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #13,208)
- 6,972 spots since 2015 (#6,236 → #13,208)
- Biggest jump: 391 spots in 1977 (#1,343 → #952)
- Biggest drop: 204 spots in 1986 (#675 → #879)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1983 at #658 (262 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1980–1990
- Highest: 1 in 6,354 girls born in 1984 were named Tarah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #658 in 1983, was only 1 in 6,376 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 46.1% of all girls named Tarah (2,182) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 37 | #3,774 (1969) | #5,716 |
| 1970s | 687 | #952 (1977) | #1,885 |
| 1980s | 2,182 | #658 (1983) | #792 |
| 1990s | 1,177 | #994 (1990) | #1,469 |
| 2000s | 430 | #2,593 (2000) | #3,655 |
| 2010s | 178 | #4,807 (2011) | #7,124 |
| 2020s | 46 | #8,953 (2020) | #11,921 |
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.
Tarah in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 28,586 of them was named Tarah, which outranked 83.0% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,780Tijuana52
- #1,780Wenona52
- #1,780Zenaida52
- #1,807Tarah51
- #1,807Alyce51
- #1,807Annetta51
- #1,807Arianne51
- #1,838Aleshia50
- #1,838Apryl50
- #1,838Aurelia50
Tied with 30 names at #1,807; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.