Carah
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 38 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 881since 1969
Carah over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Carah has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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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 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
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| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 |
| 2008 | #5,750 | 24 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 |
| 2003 | #4,220 | 31 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 |
| 2000 | #3,404 | 39 |
| 1999 | #3,313 | 38 |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
| 1985 | #4,282 | 18 |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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First appearance
1969
The first year at least five girls were named Carah! It came in at #7,471, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Carah is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Carah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Carah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 146 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #14,942)
- 6,011 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
30 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1999 at #3,313 (38 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 46,170
- Highest: 1 in 46,170 girls born in 2001 were named Carah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,313 in 1999, was only 1 in 46,680 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 29.6% of all girls named Carah (261) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,471 (1969) | #7,471 |
| 1970s | 38 | #4,942 (1977) | #6,438 |
| 1980s | 147 | #4,282 (1985) | #5,103 |
| 1990s | 252 | #3,313 (1999) | #4,281 |
| 2000s | 261 | #3,404 (2000) | #5,430 |
| 2010s | 168 | #5,114 (2012) | #7,461 |
| 2020s | 10 | #14,942 (2025) | #15,015 |
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.
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