How rare is the name Tarah?

4,269 people in the United States have the first name Tarah, about 1 in 70,750. It ranks #4,401 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

TARAH

#4,401

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,269
About
1 in 70,750
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,269 people named Tarah, 75% reported their origin as White, 10.4% as Black and 6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tarah peaked in 1985, when 267 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19632025
Peak year
1985
Births that year
267
In 2025*
6 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,737 babies have been given the name since 1963. 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.

Tarah by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,367. The largest share of babies named Tarah, 61.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#10,11337
1970s#2,422687
1980s#1,3672,182
1990s#2,4251,177
2000s#5,946430
2010s#11,524178
2020s#18,91646
Baby boom 1946–640.2%
Generation X 1965–8018.8%
Millennials 1981–9661.5%
Generation Z 1997–1216.1%
2013 and later3.3%

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 Tarah is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tarah has been most common in Florida (2.2×), Washington (2.1×), and Michigan (2×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.57×).

2,611 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.

Exactly as common as Tarah

1 other first name also has 4,269 people.

#4,401 Narciso · 4,269

Either side of Tarah

#4,399 Lyra · 4,270#4,401 Narciso · 4,269#4,403 Rasheed · 4,264#4,404 Abbas · 4,261

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tarah, most common first.

#352 Tara · 158,365#12,603 Tarrah · 983#21,290 Tariah · 478#38,650 Tarae · 198#43,336 Taray · 163

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