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Takara

#17,004 in 2025Girls' name

Treasure, jewel

Takara has been given to 1,471 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #17,004 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 78 recorded.

Babies named Takara, 2025

1 in 663,000

Takara over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Takara: meaning, origin, and history

Treasure, jewel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Takara means

Takara means “treasure, jewel”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Takara is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tä.kä.ɾä/ for Takara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,471 girls were recorded with the name Takara between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 1983; its best national rank was #1,482 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #13,327 in 2020 to #17,004 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,389 in 2015 to #17,004 in 2025.

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.

How common is Takara?

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
#17,004
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Takara 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Takara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Takaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Takara was born before 1994 — so the typical Takara is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,471
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (463).

Is Takara 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
−5,989
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,677
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,615
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.4%
Peak was 1983 (78)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,482
1983

Spellings of Takara

Takara is not the most common spelling — Tara is, with 28.7% against Takara's 0.24%.

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 Takara is used

Across 1910–2025, Takara was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 309,991 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Takara has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Takara around the world

Where Takara 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
    1996–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1993–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1993–2011
    #840
    in 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.

Takara by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,004
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,677
Best rank ever
#1,482
1983
Peak year
1983
78 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,471
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Takara

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

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Sibling names for Takara

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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