girls:
175.2k births since 1939
#226 (96th percentile)
boys:
543 births since 1962
#4043 (12th percentile)
overall:
175.8k births since 1939
#435 (94th percentile)
The name Tara is the #435 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 175,780 recorded births since 1939. This represents the 94.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #226 (96.1% percentile) for all time with 175,237 births since 1939. For boys, it ranks #4,043 (11.8% percentile) for all time with 543 births since 1962.
Tara first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1939 (1939 for girls and 1962 for boys).
The name Tara has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tara reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 95.6% percentile (ranked #35) with 4,376 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 4,485 births per million (ranked 95.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1976, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tara ranks #744 for girls (21.5% percentile) with 119 births per million, which is 2.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tara reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #632) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tara".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Tara. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.6% confident that Tara is pronounced as TEH-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAH-ruh, at 35.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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