Jara
- #8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 1972 · 19 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 860since 1967
Jara over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Jara 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 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 |
| 2006 | #5,383 | 25 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 |
| 2002 | #5,673 | 20 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 |
| 1990 | #4,380 | 22 |
| 1989 | #4,248 | 22 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 |
| 1983 | #3,949 | 19 |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 |
| 1980 | #3,411 | 24 |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 |
| 1973 | #3,787 | 16 |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
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First appearance
1967
The first year at least five girls were named Jara! It came in at #6,804, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1968, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jara is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Jara in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 2,262 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #8,860)
- 93 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #8,860)
- 4,146 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #8,860)
Rise & fade · girls
5 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 1972 at #3,276 (19 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 2 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 69,179
- Highest: 1 in 69,179 girls born in 1980 were named Jara (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,276 in 1972, was only 1 in 80,065 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1980s
- 24.0% of all girls named Jara (206) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15 | #4,723 (1969) | #5,764 |
| 1970s | 126 | #3,276 (1972) | #5,217 |
| 1980s | 206 | #3,411 (1980) | #3,982 |
| 1990s | 173 | #4,380 (1990) | #5,589 |
| 2000s | 196 | #5,151 (2000) | #6,301 |
| 2010s | 85 | #8,701 (2010) | #11,727 |
| 2020s | 59 | #8,860 (2025) | #9,864 |
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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