girls:
3.5k births since 1880
#2941 (49th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1893
#3335 (27th percentile)
overall:
4.7k births since 1880
#3965 (49th percentile)
The name Ara is the #3,965 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,743 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 48.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,941 (48.5% percentile) for all time with 3,466 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,335 (27.2% percentile) for all time with 1,277 births since 1893.
Ara has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1893 for boys).
The name Ara has been given predominantly to girls, with 73.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 72.2% of babies named Ara were girls.
For girls, Ara reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 8.0% percentile (ranked #543) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 131 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ara ranks #900 for girls (5.0% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 22.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ara reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #631) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 41 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ara ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 26.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ara".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ara. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.8% confident that Ara is pronounced as AH-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-ruh, at 21.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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