Antara

#12,032 in 2025Girls' name

Inner; what is inside, through अन्तर

Antara has been given to 207 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #12,032 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Antara, 2025

1 in 474,000

Antara over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Antara: meaning, origin, and history

Inner; what is inside, through अन्तर

Sanskrit

What Antara means

Antara belongs to the name family reached through Antara → अन्तर. Its meaning is “inner; what is inside”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Sanskrit अन्तर (antara), meaning interval, this body.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Antara (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Antara is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Antara comes through Sanskrit अन्तर.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include अन्तर.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 207 girls were recorded with the name Antara between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,514 in 2006.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,688 in 2015 to #12,032 in 2025.

How common is Antara?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 230,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #12,032; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Antara sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Antara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Antaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Antara was born before 2007 — so the typical Antara is around 18 today.

Median birth year: 2007; About 18 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 83.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 207; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Antara rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +2,656; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.17×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 43.8%; Peak was 2006 (16)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,514; 2006

Spellings of Antara

Antara is not the most common spelling — Tara is, with 63.4% against Antara's 0.07%.

Tara63.4%175,812
Amara10.5%28,982
Anaya6.5%17,997
Aitana3.5%9,804
Santana2.1%5,941
Andra2.0%5,572
Anitra1.6%4,379
Adara1.1%2,917

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Antara is used

Across 1910–2025, Antara was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Antara has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Antara around the world

Where Antara ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1999–2023
#5,688
in 2023
France
2012–2012
#7,224
in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Antara by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #12,032
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #7,514; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 16 that year
First recorded: 1990
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 207
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Antara

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Anthem Ashara Asmara Ammara Delara Aynara Anthea Sakara Jahara Nahara Simara Aymara Inaara Osmara Nitara Zakara Zohara Mayara Antwan Nayara Hadara Thiara Antonela Jazara

Sibling names for Antara

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Sydni Shyann Sydnie Jacquelin Halie Jazmyne Gabriel Shakira

For a brother

Kale Jarod Keven Zakary Nathen Garret Aaden Samual

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