Carah
#15,364 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carah has been given to 881 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #15,364 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 39 recorded.
Babies named Carah, 2025
1 in 663,000
Carah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Carah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #15,364
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carah was born before 1999 — so the typical Carah is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 29.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 45.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 881
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (261).
Is Carah 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
- +210
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,309
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.42×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 12.8%
- Peak was 2000 (39)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.0% average annual change
Spellings of Carah
Carah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 27.8% against Carah's 0.02%.
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 Carah is used
Across 1910–2025, Carah was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,023,410 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Carah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Carah around the world
Where Carah 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 & Wales2008–2015#5,730in 2015
- Canada1998–2000#2,489in 2000
- South Australia1986–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Carah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Carah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Carah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.