Vara
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1898 · 14 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 762since 1887
Vara over time
Rank among girls' names. Vara has never cracked the top 900 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 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | — | |
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| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | — | |
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| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 |
| 1937 | #3,146 | 8 |
| 1936 | #2,386 | 12 |
| 1935 | #2,439 | 12 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,868 | 9 |
| 1932 | #2,831 | 10 |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 |
| 1930 | #2,845 | 10 |
| 1929 | #2,737 | 11 |
| 1928 | #2,497 | 13 |
| 1927 | #2,256 | 16 |
| 1926 | #2,165 | 17 |
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 |
| 1924 | #2,137 | 18 |
| 1923 | #1,895 | 21 |
| 1922 | #1,730 | 24 |
| 1921 | #1,988 | 20 |
| 1920 | #2,463 | 14 |
| 1919 | #1,698 | 23 |
| 1918 | #2,376 | 14 |
| 1917 | #1,847 | 19 |
| 1916 | #1,630 | 22 |
| 1915 | #1,883 | 17 |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 |
| 1913 | #1,670 | 13 |
| 1912 | #1,620 | 12 |
| 1911 | #1,956 | 7 |
| 1910 | #1,521 | 10 |
| 1909 | #1,763 | 7 |
| 1908 | #1,547 | 8 |
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 |
| 1906 | #1,321 | 9 |
| 1905 | #1,162 | 11 |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,792 | 5 |
| 1902 | #1,219 | 9 |
| 1901 | #1,067 | 10 |
| 1900 | #1,231 | 10 |
| 1899 | #983 | 11 |
| 1898 | #920 | 14 |
| 1897 | #1,385 | 6 |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | #986 | 11 |
| 1894 | #998 | 10 |
| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | #1,099 | 7 |
| 1889 | #1,279 | 5 |
| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 |
| 1887 | #1,147 | 5 |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Vara! It came in at #1,147, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1891–1893, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Vara
- 2,054 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #10,107)
- 561 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #10,107)
- 4,375 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 465 spots in 1898 (#1,385 → #920)
- Biggest drop: 248 spots in 1900 (#983 → #1,231)
- Debuted 1887
- Peaked 1898 at #920 (14 births)
- Births halved by 1903, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1894–1895
- Highest: 1 in 18,484 girls born in 1898 were named Vara (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 21.4% of all girls named Vara (163) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | #1,147 (1887) | #1,234 |
| 1890s | 64 | #920 (1898) | #1,115 |
| 1900s | 75 | #1,067 (1901) | #1,436 |
| 1910s | 144 | #1,521 (1910) | #1,908 |
| 1920s | 163 | #1,730 (1922) | #2,323 |
| 1930s | 76 | #2,386 (1936) | #2,899 |
| 1940s | 36 | #3,194 (1942) | #3,869 |
| 1950s | 21 | #5,148 (1954) | #5,592 |
| 1960s | 20 | #5,168 (1960) | #5,431 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 6 | #9,237 (1982) | #9,237 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 90 | #6,531 (2017) | #10,706 |
| 2020s | 52 | #9,056 (2022) | #10,771 |
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.
Vara in 1894
Top girls' names in 1894
More about 1894
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222,922 girls got a published name in 1894; 1 in 22,292 of them was named Vara, which outranked 41.4% of the 1,702 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #950Virdie11
- #950Willia11
- #950Zadie11
- #998Vara10
- #998Alba10
- #998Alverda10
- #998America10
- #1,061Ader9
- #1,061Anner9
- #1,061Annice9
Tied with 62 names at #998; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 691Macy#794 → #1,485
- ↓ 659Fredericka#826 → #1,485
- ↓ 586Dee#767 → #1,353
- ↓ 584Katharyn#901 → #1,485
- ↓ 584Leva#901 → #1,485
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.