first name
KARA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 93,447 people named Kara, 85.7% reported their origin as White, 4% as two or more races and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kara peaked in 1991, when 3,281 babies got the name.
At least 102,025 babies have been given the name since 1896. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Kara by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #215. The largest share of babies named Kara, 42.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Kara is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kara has been most common in Idaho (1.6×), Wyoming (1.6×), and Indiana (1.5×), and least common in Mississippi (0.42×).
99,554 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Kara
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kara, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Kara ranks #17,842 of 156,621, with 1,544 people. See Kara as a last name
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