first name
MARA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 24,761 people named Mara, 70.6% reported their origin as White, 19.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.1% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Mara peaked in 2021, when 568 babies got the name.
At least 24,054 babies have been given the name since 1892. 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.
Mara by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,121. The largest share of babies named Mara, 25.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
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 Mara is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mara has been most common in Minnesota (3.3×), Wisconsin (2.2×), and Washington (1.7×), and least common in Alabama (0.1×).
19,760 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 Mara
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mara, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Mara ranks #12,043 of 156,621, with 2,475 people. See Mara as a last name
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