Dhara
#3,222 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dhara has been given to 637 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #3,222 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 49 recorded.
Babies named Dhara, 2025
1 in 67,700
Dhara 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dhara?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 67,700
- 49 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 32,800
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,222
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 46,897 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dhara 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dhara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dharas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dhara was born before 2005 — so the typical Dhara is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 29.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 637
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (185).
Is Dhara 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
- +1,576
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,135
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +11,764
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 8.17×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (49)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.8% average annual change
Spellings of Dhara
Dhara is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 19.2% against Dhara'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 Dhara is used
Across 1910–2025, Dhara was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 445,156 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5New York1 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. Dhara has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dhara around the world
Where Dhara 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 & Wales1997–2025#3,333in 2025
- Canada2003–2008#3,151in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Dhara by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dhara
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dhara
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.