Ara

Where Ara comes from

Borrowed from Armenian Արա (Ara).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ara
  • Armenian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #479
    18 babies named Ara — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1928
    Ara Güler born
    Turkish photographer
  4. 1955
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,069.
  5. 1975
    Ara Abrahamian born
    Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler
  6. 1999
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Armenian.
Namesakes
  • Ara Güler · Turkish photographer, 1928–2018
  • Ara Abrahamian · Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler, born 1975
  • Ara Malikian · Armenian musician, born 1968
  • Ara Harutyunyan · Soviet sculptor and artist, 1928–1999
  • Ara Ayvazyan · Armenian diplomat, born 1969

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.