Gender-neutral · #3249 in 2025

Ara

Ara: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#3249
Born 2025
48
Peak year
1884

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Ara per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 1884. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Ara has been rising: its share of girls born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 21% of its 1884 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 80% of children named Ara were recorded as girls and 20% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.