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Gara

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Guanche origin

Gara has been given to 339 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Gara, 2000

1 in 540,000

Gara over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gara: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Guanche origin

Guanche

What Gara means

Gara is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gara is used in Spanish. Its origins include Guanche.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Gara is pronounced /ˈɡaɾa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 339 girls were recorded with the name Gara between 1916 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1972; its best national rank was #3,775 in 1950.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gara?

Gara had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 540,000
7 of 3,778,496 births
Among girls only
1 in 259,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
374,152 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gara 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 2000 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 374,152 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gara was born before 1969 — so the typical Gara is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
275
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (90).

Is Gara 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1972 (13)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,775
1950

Spellings of Gara

Gara is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 35.8% against Gara's <0.01%.

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.

Gara around the world

Where Gara 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.

  • France
    2003–2006
    #3,883
    in 2006

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gara by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,775
1950
Peak year
1972
13 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
339
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gara

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

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Sibling names for Gara

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

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