girls:
4.7k births since 1963
#2470 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.7k births since 1963
#3976 (49th percentile)
The name Tarah is the #3,976 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,722 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 48.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,470 (56.8% percentile) for all time with 4,722 births since 1963.
Tarah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (first recorded for girls in 1963). Birth data for Tarah is available in 59 out of the 61 years between 1963 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Tarah reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 32.3% percentile (ranked #534) with 147 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 147 births per million (ranked 32.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1985, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tarah ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tarah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Tarah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 19 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Tara" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Tara..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tarah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.0% confident that Tarah is pronounced as TEH-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAH-ruh, at 41.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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